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UNIVERSITY  OF  ILLINOIS 
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HENRIETTA  CALHOUN  HORNER 


THE  LINCOLN 
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February  27,  1860 
One  of  the  photopir.aphs  made  by  Brady 
on  tlie  day  of  the  Cooper  Institute  Speech. 
This  print  is  from  a  negative  in  the  Col- 
lection of  Frederick  Hill  Meserve,  New 
York,  and  is  contributed  by  him  to  the 
Lincoln  Fellowship. 


Proceedings  at  the  Second  and 
Third  Annual  Meetings  of  the 
Lincoln  Fellowship,  held  at 
Delmonico's,  New  York,  Satur- 
day, February  20th,  1909,  and 
Saturday,  February  12th,  1910. 


New  York 
The  Lincoln  Fellowship 


Copyright,   1910,   by 
THE  LINCOLN  FELLOWSHIP 


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I 

\  Contents 

—  Page 
^  _   Annual  Meeting  1909. 

^         Business  Meeting 5 

^  Eemarks  of  General  James  Grant  Wilson    7 

Speech  of  Major  William  H.  Lambert    .     .     8 

T    Annual  Meeting  1910. 

«  Eemarks  of  Major  William  H.  Lambert  .  12 

-  Telegram  from  Mr.  Joseph  B.  Oakleaf  .  .  13 
Letter  from  Hon.  Frederick  W.  Seward  .  13 

^  Speech  of  General  Daniel  E.  Sickles     .     .  14 

^  Speech  of  General  James  Grant  Wilson     .  26 

^  Anecdote  by  Major  William  H.  Lambert  31 

^  Speech  of  Mr.  David  Homer  Bates     .     .  32 

^  Speech  of  Judge  Daniel  Fish 36 

7  Speech  of  Mr.  Charles  W.  McLellan    .     .  40 

-^  Speech  of  Mr.  Alonzo  Rothschild     ...  44 

^  Speech  of  Mr.  Frederick  Hill  Meserve    .  48 

O  Letter  from  Hon.  Robert  T.  Lincoln  .     .  49 

^  Letter  from  General  Julius  Stahel    ...  51 

"5  Business  Meeting 51 

^^  Officers    and   Members 53 


Annual  Meeting,  1909 


OWING  to  the  numerous  celebrations  of  the 
Centennial  of  the  birth  of  Abraham 
Lincoln,  which  members  of  The  Lin- 
coln Fellowship  felt  obliged  to  attend, 
it  was  impossible  to  obtain  a  quorum  on  Febru- 
ary 12th.  The  arrangements  for  the  Annual 
Dinner  were  therefore  cancelled,  and  the  Annual 
Meeting  was  postponed  until  February  20th. 


The  Adjourned  Meeting  was  held  at  Delmon- 
ico's.  New  York,  at  2.30  P.  M.,  on  Saturday, 
February  20th,  1909.  The  President,  Major  Will- 
iam H.  Lambert,  was  in  the  chair,  and  the  fol- 
lowing members  were  present:  Vice-Presidents, 
General  James  Grant  Wilson  and  Charles  W. 
McLellan;  Secretary,  Francis  D.  Tandy;  Messrs. 
Norman  Veitch,  Robert  Hewitt,  Hugh  McLellan, 
Edward  J.  Deitch,  Victor  Brenner  and  Wayne 
Whipple.  Proxies  were  submitted  by  fifteen 
other  members,  thus  constituting  a  quorum. 

The  Secretary  read  the  minutes  of  the  previ- 
ous meeting,  which  were  approved  as  read. 

The  Secretary  reported  that  The  Fellowship 
had  enrolled  139  members,  of  whom  three  had 
resigned  and  two  had  died  during  the  last  year, 
leaving  a  total  membership  of  134. 

The  Secretary  submitted  the  following  report, 
which  was  approved: 

5 


0  LINCOLN   FELLOWSHIP 

RECEIPTS  EXPENDITURES 

On  hand,  1908..  $37.53  Printinci:     Pro- 
Dues 98.90        eeedin^'s $129.18 

Dinner 105.00  Dinner,  1908  . . .   118.65 

Printing  fund. . .   121.06  Miscellaneous...     37.45 
Cash  on  hand.  .     77.21 


$362.49 


$362.49 


A  notice  of  the  formation  of  a  Lincoln  Fel- 
lowship in  Rome,  Italy,  was  read,  and  the  Secre- 
tary was  instructed  to  write  to  that  organization 
and  congratulate  it  upon  its  formation  and  to 
extend  to  it  the  hearty  good  wishes  and  co-opera- 
tion of  The  Lincoln  Fellowship. 

Letters  were  read  from  the  following  members : 
Henry  S.  Burrage,  David  Homer  Bates,  E.  M. 
Bowman,  George  B.  Fairhead,  Richard  Lloyd 
Jones,  Isaac  N.  Phillips,  0.  H.  Oldroyd,  Orra  L. 
Stone,  Clara  E.  Laughlin,  James  Henry  Harris, 
William  H.  Owen,  Jr.,  Leroy  B.  Crane  and  Mrs. 
Maurice  V.  Cooley. 

The  proposition  to  raise  the  dues  from  One 
Dollar  to  Two  Dollars  per  year,  in  accordance 
with  the  notice  sent  forth  in  December,  was  next 
taken  up.  In  view  of  the  fact  that  no  annual 
dinner  had  been  held  and  no  proceedings  would 
be  printed,  it  was  decided  that  the  present  dues 
of  One  Dollar  per  year  would  be  sufficient  for 
the  present  to  cover  the  expenses  of  The  Fellow- 
ship. The  proposition  was  therefore  laid  on  the 
table  till  the  next  annual  meeting. 

The  election  of  officers  being  next  in  order,  it 
was  proposed  by  Mr.  Hewitt  and  seconded  by 
Mr.  Veitch  that  the  present  officers  l>e  re-elected 
for  the  ensuing  year.    Mr.  Tandy  offered  as  an 


GENERAL   WILSON  7 

amendment  that  Mr.  Horace  White  be  also  elected 
one  of  the  Vice-Presidents.  The  amendment  was 
accepted  by  Mr.  Hewitt  and  Mr.  Veitch,  and  the 
motion  was  carried  unanimously. 

General  Wilson  displayed  a  handsome  portrait 
of  Abraham  Lincoln,  painted  in  oils  by  Mr.  W.  D. 
Bicknell,  and  explained  the  history  of  the  por- 
trait. On  motion  made  by  Mr.  Hugh  McLellan, 
and  seconded  by  Mr.  C.  W.  McLellan,  a  vote  of 
thanks  was  extended  to  General  Wilson  and  Mr. 
Bicknell  for  the  pleasure  afforded  the  members. 

The  President  instructed  the  committee  who 
had  charge  of  arranging  the  annual  meeting  this 
year,  to  arrange  for  a  suitable  dinner  and  meet- 
ing on  February  12th,  1910.  There  being  no 
further  business  the  meeting  then  adjourned. 

Immediately  after  adjournment,  before  the 
members  dispersed,  General  Wilson,  on  behalf  of 
The  Lincoln  Fellowship,  presented  Major  Will- 
iam H.  Lambert  with  a  handsome  Lincoln  medal 
designed  by  Roine,  in  commemoration  of  the  one 
hundredth  anniversary  of  the  birth  of  Abraham 
Lincoln.  The  General  also  presented  to  the  Major 
on  his  own  behalf,  a  beautiful  gold-embroidered 
Lincoln  Centennial  Badge,  a  duplicate  of  one  re- 
ceived by  President  Roosevelt  from  the  State  of 
Kentucky,  when  he  and  General  Wilson  delivered 
addresses  at  the  Lincoln  Farm  Centennial  Cele- 
bration of  12  Feb.,  1909. 

Remarks  of  Geneeal  Wilson 

Mr.  President: — On  behalf  of  the  members  of 
The  Lincoln  Fellowship  I  have  much  pleasure  in 
presenting  to  you  this  beautiful  bronze  medal  by 
Roine,  designed  by  him  as  a  Lincoln  Centennial 


8  LINCOLN   FELLOWSHIP 

Memorial.  It  is  modeled  by  the  successful  sculp- 
tor from  the  death  mask,  and  it  is  certainly  a 
veritable  artistic  triumph  in  every  particular, 
worthy  of  an  honored  place  among  your  un- 
equaled  collection  of  Lincolniana.  The  medal  is 
accompanied  by  a  new  and  novel  feature,  a  taste- 
ful bronze  stand,  on  which  it  can  be  suspended 
and  most  advantageously  seen.  Will  you  add  also 
the  Centennial  Badge  to  your  Lincoln  treasures? 

Speech  of  Major  Lambert 

General  Wilson:  I  thank  you  and  the  other 
members  of  the  Fellowship  for  the  novel  and  beau- 
tiful testimonial  which  you  have  presented  me.  I 
will  gladly  add  it  to  my  collection,  and  will  prize 
it  because  of  its  artistic  merit  and  even  more  be- 
cause it  comes  from  you  who  have  already  highly 
honored  me  by  twice  electing  me  your  President, 
and  whom  I  highly  esteem  as  comrades  in  loving 
service  of  a  great  memory.  Please  bear  with  me 
while  I  read  this  tribute  to  the  memory  of  Abra- 
ham Lincoln: 

Of  the  hundred  years  that  have  passed  since 
the  birth  of  Abraham  Lincoln  only  fifty-six  were 
covered  by  his  life,  and  of  these  less  than  ten 
compassed  his  conspicuously  prominent  career. 
But  so  crowded  were  these  few  years  that  the 
many  that  have  followed  have  not  sufficed  for  the 
telling  of  their  story.  His  dramatic  death — the 
deep  damnation  of  his  taking  off — the  sudden 
plunge  from  the  crest  of  victory  to  the  depth  of 
despair,  from  the  rejoicing  over  Appomattox  to 
the  lamentation  of  the  fifteenth  of  April,  the  aw- 
ful calamity  called  forth  such  manifestation  of 
sorrow  as  the  world  had  never  seen,  for  never 


MAJOR  LAMBERT  9 

before  had  a  nation's  grief  been  so  personal.  It 
sought  expression  in  myriad  ways;  in  the  cities, 
where  his  coffined  body  lay  in  state  great  crowds 
waited  for  hours  that  they  might  look  upon  his 
face;  in  town  and  country  by  day  and  by  night 
multitudes  thronged  the  lines  of  railway — stand- 
ing with  bared  heads  as  the  funeral  train  went  by. 
Buildings  draped  in  black — emblems  of  mourning 
everywhere  present,  while  churches  and  halls 
echoed  with  eulogies  of  the  Martyr  President,  as 
preacher  and  orator  and  poet  vied  in  effort  to 
voice  the  people's  woe. 

The  personal  note  of  sorrow  was  sounded  by 
Whitman : 

My  Captain  does  not  answer,  his  lips  are  pale 

and  still; 
My  Father  does  not  feel  my  arm,  he  has  no  pulse 

nor  will; 
The  ship  is  anchored  safe  and  sound,  its  voyage 

closed  and  done; 
From  fearful  trip  the  victor  ship  comes  in  with 
object  won — 

Exult  0  Shores !  and  ring  0  Bells ! 
But  I  with  mournful  tread 

Walk  the  deck,  my  Captain  lies 
Fallen  cold  and  dead. 

Lowell,  writing  later,  in  calmer  mood,  uttered  the 
national  thought  and  analyzing  the  character  and 
elemental  greatness  of  the  dead  leader,  prophe- 
sied his  ultimate  fame  in  language  that  seemed 
audacious  because  spoken  while  Grant,  Farragut, 
Sherman,  Thomas,  Meade  and  Sheridan  were  still 
with  us  in  the  fulness  of  their  deserved  fame,  but 
the  poet,  looking  beyond  them,  declared: 


10  LINCOLN   FELLOWSHIP 

Great  Captains  with  their  guns  and  drums 

Disturb  our  judgment  for  the  hour, 
But  at  hist  silence  comes: 

These  are  all  gone  and  standing  like  a  tower 
Our  children  shall  behold  his  fame 

The  kindly  earnest,  brave,  foreseeing  man, 
Sagacious,  patient,  dreading  praise,  not  blame 

New  birth  of  our  new  soil,  the  first  American. 

The  nearness  and  the  intensity  of  the  loss  might 
well  exaggerate  the  sense  of  its  greatness  and 
excuse  extravagance  of  utterance,  but  the  pass- 
ing years  so  far  from  witnessing  a  reaction  in 
judgment  have  approved  it,  thus  vindicating  the 
poet's   foresight   and   verifying   his   inspiration. 

Time  that  dulls  the  smart  of  all  wounds,  the 
rapid  passing  of  the  generation  that  endured  the 
war  and  bewailed  the  fallen  chief  have  largely 
eliminated  the  element  of  personal  loss,  but  his 
memory  has  no  wise  dimmed,  his  fame  has  in  no 
whit  abated.  The  circumstances  of  his  early  life 
have  been  laid  bare,  all  sources  of  information 
have  been  scrutinized  microscopically,  the  memory 
and  imagination  of  those  who  knew  him,  or 
thought  they  did,  have  been  taxed  to  the  utmost, 
his  early  words,  spoken  and  written,  have  been 
rescued  from  shadowy  tradition  and  obscurity  of 
desk  and  closet.  No  recurring  anniversary  of  his 
birth  has  failed  of  celebration,  no  year  since  his 
death  has  been  without  its  biography.  But  the 
most  intimate  revelation  of  his  life  and  of  his 
foibles  and  limitations  has  not  loosened  his  right- 
ful hold  upon  the  love  and  admiration  of  his 
countrymen. 

Memorials  by  thousands  in  books  and  pam- 
phlets, in  statues  and  busts,  in  paintings  and  en- 


MAJOR  LAMBERT  11 

gravings,  in  the  names  of  towns  and  streets  and 
of  parks  and  buildings,  testify  how  wide  and  how 
enduring  is  the  appreciation  of  his  memory. 

How  wondrous  was  his  career !  From  the  hum- 
blest and  most  unpromising  beginnings  he  at- 
tained the  height  of  fame;  he  wielded  imperial 
power  without  abusing  it,  never  for  personal  ag- 
grandizement but  only  for  the  public  good ;  he  con- 
ducted a  stupendous  war  to  its  triumphant  close 
and  in  words  that  will  be  immortal  gave  to  the  ob- 
ject of  the  war,  its  most  eloquent  and  adequate 
expression;  he  beheld  the  fulfillment  of  his  own 
prophecy  and  by  destroying  the  cause  of  danger 
saved  the  national  edifice  and  founded  it  upon 
rock ;  without  losing  the  gentleness  that  made  him 
great  he  passed  through  a  conflict  of  unsurpassed 
bitterness,  in  which  he  was  vilified  and  denounced 
as  buffoon  and  tyrant,  and  as  that  conflict  drew  to 
its  close  he  declared  himself  with  malice  toward' 
none  and  with  charity  for  all.  He  led  his  people 
to  victory,  and  dying,  constrained  his  enemies  to 
acknowledge  that  next  to  their  own  defeat  the 
greatest  disaster  that  had  befallen  them  was  the 
death  of  him  who  had  defeated  them.  Well  may 
we  cherish  the  great  President's  memory  as  our 
choicest  heritage  and  in  our  just  pride  in  his  life 
rejoice  than  in  the  Nation's  supremest  need,  God 
give  us  Abraham  Lincoln. 


Annual    Meeting,    1910 


THE  MEETING  was  held  at  Delmonico's, 
Fifth  Avenue  and  Forty-fourth  Street, 
New  York,  on  Saturday,  February  12th, 
at  6 :  30  P.  M.  The  following  members  were 
present:  President,  Major  William  H.  Lambert; 
Vice-Presidents,  General  James  Grant  Wilson, 
Judge  Daniel  Fish,  Charles  W.  McLellan,  Alonzo 
Rothschild;  Treasurer,  Judd  Stewart;  Secretary, 
Francis  D.  Tandy.  Members:  General  Daniel  E. 
Sickles,  Messrs.  Matthew  Page  Andrews,  David 
Homer  Bates,  Victor  D.  Brenner,  Anthony  Gross, 
Frederick  Trevor  Hill,  Rev.  S.  Trevena  Jackson, 
Hugh  McLellan,  Malcom  McLellan,  Frederick  Hill 
Meserve,  Daniel  H.  Newhall,  August  Kuhn,  Orra 
L.  Stone,  Edward  A.  Sumner,  Norman  Veitch, 
Fred  G.  Wilson.  The  following  guests  were  also 
present:  Messrs.  John  C.  McCall,  Julius  Kuhn, 
W.  P.  Thomas  and  Benjamin  Tuska. 

At  the  conclusion  of  the  dinner,  The  President 
called  the  meeting  to  order. 

Remarks  of  the  President 

Members  of  the  Lincoln  Felloivship  and  Guests: 
I  congratulate  you,  as  I  congratulate  myself,  upon 
this  our  second  formal  meeting.  I  find  that  we 
are  in  a  flourishing  condition,  notwithstanding  the 
fact  that  we  were  unable  to  meet  in  1909  because 
of  the  many  Lincoln  Centennial  observances  which 
required  our  presence  elsewhere. 
12 


MAJOR  LAMBERT  13 

I  have  a  message  from  our  fellow  member,  Mr. 
J.  B.  Oakleaf,  who  telegraphed  from  Moline,  111., 
yesterday. 

Telegram  from  Joseph  B.  Oakleaf 

Major  Lambert:  Greetings  from  Illinois.  Sorry 
I  cannot  be  with  you.  I  offer  as  a  toast  "Lincoln 
Fellowship:  May  it  ever  be  worthy  to  bear  the 
name  of  the  man  whose  memory  we  commemorate 

t^-^^y-"  J.  B.  Oakleaf. 

General  Wilson  hands  me  a  letter  from  Mr. 
Frederick  Seward,  which  I  take  pleasure  in  read- 
ing: 

Letter  from  Frederick  W.  Seward 

Montrose,  N.  Y.,  Jan.  23,  1910. 

Mtf  dear  General  Wilson:  I  wish  I  could  accept 
your  kind  invitation  for  the  12th  of  February,  and 
so  have  the  pleasure  of  meeting  you  and  other  old 
friends  of  the  Civil  War  period.  But,  as  usual,  my 
doctor  forbids  my  going  to  town  to  attend  evening 
festivities  on  winter  nights.  I  am  sorry  it  happens 
so,  but  my  long  illness  of  last  year,  warns  me  that 
his  injunctions  are  not  to  be  disregarded. 

Every  anniversary  of  Lincoln's  birthday  brings 
me  many  invitations — some  of  them  from  distant 
States — to  attend  public  or  private  gatherings  in 
his  honor.  I  find  in  their  increasing  number  a 
gratifying  evidence  of  the  steady  growth  of  his 
already  world-wide  fame.  Every  such  gathering 
is  patriotic  and  praiseworthy  for  its  effect  in  pro- 
moting due  appreciation  of  his  acts  and  character 
among  the  coming  generations. 

Very  sincerely  yours, 

Frederick  W.  Seward. 


14  LINCOLN   FELLOWSHIP 

We  are  exceedingly  fortunate  in  liaving  with  us 
to-niglit  our  distinguished  member,  Major-General 
Daniel  K.  Sickles,  whose  privilege  it  was  to  know 
and  be  known  by  Abraham  Lincoln.    (Applause.) 

Speech  of  Gen.  Daniel  E.  Sickles 

Mr.  President,  Gentlemen  of  the  Lincoln  Fellow- 
ship and  Friends:  I  shall  not  make  any  extended 
remarks,  and  must  ask  your  indulgence  in  retain- 
ing my  seat  while  addressing  you. 

I  must  apologize  for  my  shortcomings  this  even- 
ing, as  I  have  been  suffering  for  the  last  two  weeks 
from  a  bad  cold,  and  it  is  only  by  considerable  ef- 
fort that  I  am  able  to  be  with  you  at  all.  It  is  a 
very  great  pleasure  to  be  surrounded  by  so  many 
gentlemen  who  are  devoted  to  the  memory  of 
Abraham  Lincoln — who  have  given  so  much  time 
and  thought  and  labor  in  collecting  ''Lincoln- 
iana,"  as  our  worthy  President  very  aptly  puts  it. 
I  sympathize  with  you  in  this  devotion  to  Lincoln, 
as  he  has  always  been  one  of  my  ideal  heroes,  not 
only  from  my  personal  and  official  relations  with 
him,  but  because  he  is  one  of  the  greatest  histor- 
ical characters  of  all  time,  and  one  of  the  most 
celebrated  of  our  American  statesmen.  I  join  you 
in  cherishing  his  memory;  his  birthdays,  so  long 
as  I  am  spared  to  know  them,  will  always  be  to  me 
glorious  occasions. 

With  your  permission,  before  I  touch  upon  any 
reminiscences  of  the  great  martyr,  I  will  venture 
to  narrate  one  or  two  instances  of  my  intercourse 
with  his  predecessor,  my  dear  old  friend.  Presi- 
dent James  Buchanan,  with  whom  I  was  assoe- 
ciated  in  the  Diplomatic  service  when  he  was  Min- 
ister to  London  in  1853-54-55,  and  afterwards  as 


GENERAL  SICKLES  15 

a  Member  of  Congress  from  1856  to  1861.  I  have 
always  retained  a  warm  personal  regard  for  Mr. 
Buchanan.  No  matter  what  may  have  been  said 
of  him,  he  was  a  true  patriot  and  an  able  states- 
man. I  am  tempted  to  give  you  one  or  two  in- 
stances of  "Buchaniana,"  on  the  advice  of  my 
friend,  General  Wilson,  to  whom  I  related  one  of 
them  in  the  early  part  of  the  evening.  When  I 
asked  him  if  I  should  venture  to  intrude  upon  you 
some  of  these  stories,  he  said,  "By  all  means." 
If  you  don't  like  them,  you  must  charge  them  to 
General  Wilson,  for  he  promised  to  back  me  up. 

You  remember  how  anxious  all  our  people  were 
when,  in  the  early  part  of  1861,  Major  Anderson 
evacuated  Fort  Moultrie  and  transferred  his  gar- 
rison to  Fort  Sumter.  The  South  Carolinans  re- 
sented this  movement;  their  plenipotentiaries  in 
Washington  went  to  Buchanan  and  protested 
against  it,  insisting  that  Anderson  should  be  or- 
dered back  from  Fort  Sumter  to  Moultrie.  Stan- 
ton, the  then  Attorney-General,  and  General  John 
A.  Dix,  Secretary  of  the  Treasury,  argued  with 
Mr.  Buchanan,  insisting  that  he  should  retain  An- 
derson at  Sumter.  But  their  efforts  were  unavail- 
ing, so  they  came  to  me  and  told  me  the  situation 
at  the  White  House,  begging  me  to  see  Mr.  Bu- 
chanan and  reinforce  their  appeal. 

I  said  to  them:  "Gentlemen,  I  know  Mr.  Bu- 
chanan too  well  to  attempt  to  change  his  views 
after  two  members  of  his  cabinet  and  others  have 
failed  in  their  efforts  to  dissuade  him ;  but  if  you 
will  allow  me,  I  will  leave  town  this  evening  and 
take  some  steps  of  my  own,  in  my  own  way,  to 
influence  the  President  in  your  direction." 

They  were  not  altogether  pleased  with  this  an- 
nouncement of  mine,  but  I  was  firm  in  my  resolu- 


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tion.  I  put  M  clean  sliirt  and  ni,2^htp:own  in  my  ])ort- 
nianteau  and  took  the  next  train  for  New  York. 
Before  starting-,  I  sent  telegrams  to  Philadelpliia, 
Trenton  and  New  York,  to  friends  in  those  cities, 
asking  them  to  meet  me  on  my  arrival.  On  reach- 
ing Pliiladelphia,  I  exphiined  the  situation  to  ray 
friend,  Daniel  Dougherty,  a  distinguished  member 
of  the  Bar  and  a  warm  friend  of  the  President. 

I  said:  "You  know  Buchanan,  and  that  there  is 
no  way  to  reach  him  except  throug^h  the  force  of 
public  opinion.  I  want  you  to  send  a  strong  cur- 
rent of  opinion  from  Philadelphia  to  the  White 
House;  I  want  you  to  have  a  National  salute  fired 
to-morrow  morning,  early,  in  Philadelphia,  in 
honor  of  Mr.  Buchanan's  heroic  determination  to 
keep  Major  Anderson  and  his  command  in  Fort 
Sumter;  I  want  you  to  go  to  all  the  newspapers 
within  your  reach,  and  ask  the  editors  to  print 
editorials  to-morrow  morning,  glorifying  Mr.  Bu- 
chanan for  his  patriotic  resolution  to  keep  An- 
derson at  Fort  Sumter ;  then  go  to  the  Banks  and 
ask  each  of  them  to  send  telegrams  to  the  Presi- 
dent, praising  him  to  the  skies  for  his  decision 
to  keep  Anderson  at  Fort  Sumter.  Give  him  a 
shower  of  telegrams,  no  matter  how  long." 

After  leaving  Philadelphia,  I  proceeded  to 
Trenton  and  went  through  the  same  performance. 
A  big  salute  was  fired  in  Trenton,  which  was  fol- 
lowed up  by  100  or  more  telegrams.  I  then  pushed 
on  to  New  York,  where  I  was  met  by  a  number  of 
friends — quite  a  crowd  of  them.  I  said  I  wanted 
100  guns  fired,  and  I  wanted  the  newspapers  to 
publish  strong  editiorials  similar  to  those  which 
were  to  be  published  in  Philadelphia  and  Trenton. 
Then..  I  went  to  Wall  Street,  and  got  a  lot  of  bank 


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presidents  and  some  leading  merchants  and  bank- 
ers to  wire  to  Washington  to  the  same  effect. 

On  my  return  to  Washington,  I  was  met  by  Mr. 
Stanton,  then  Attorney-General,  who  put  his  arms 
around  my  neck  and  said:  "Glorious!  We  have 
won.  The  old  man  showed  us  to-day  a  big  pile  of 
telegrams  and  editorials,  and  even  the  roar  of 
those  grand  salutes  seemed  to  have  reached  him." 

In  this  manner,  our  purpose  was  accomplished, 
when  it  would  have  been  impossible  to  move  him 
by  direct  personal  appeals.    (Applause.) 

I  am  glad  that  this  incident  has  received  so  kind 
a  reception  at  your  hands,  and  we  may  consider 
that  General  Wilson  is  now  absolved.  Since  you 
have  received  one  story  so  graciously,  I  may,  per- 
haps, venture  to  give  you  another.     (Applause.) 

On  the  22d  of  February,  1861,  General  Scott, 
then  Commander-in-chief  of  the  Army,  had  a  con- 
siderable force  of  Regulars  in  Washington  which 
he  had  collected  by  direction  of  Buchanan,  in  or- 
der to  preserve  the  peace  in  the  Capitol  while  Mr. 
Lincoln  was  being  inaugurated.  Mr.  Buchanan 
never  got  credit  for  this  foresight.  It  was  the 
largest  reg-ular  force  that  had  been  seen  in  Wash- 
ington since  the  War  of  1812 ;  it  was  a  small  army. 
But  when  Ex-President  Tyler,  of  Virginia — who 
was  the  President  of  the  Peace  Commission,  then 
deliberating  in  Washington  in  the  hope  of  reach- 
ing a  compromise  of  the  controversy  between  the 
states — heard  of  the  order  for  the  parade,  he  pro- 
tested to  the  President  against  what  he  called  an 
offensive  demonstration  of  military  power,  which 
he  said  would  be  sure  to  wound  the  sensibilities 
of  Virginia  and  Maryland;  and  he  asked  Mr.  Bu- 
chanan to  countermand  the  order  for  the  parade. 
Controlled  by  his  strong  desire  for  peace,  and  in 


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view  of  tlie  earnest  hope  that  the  Peace  Com- 
mission nii^lit  reach  a  satisfactory  conclusion  of 
its  labors,  the  President  unfortunately  consented 
to  countermand  General  Scott's  order  for  the  mili- 
tary display.  Enormous  crowds  of  people,  per- 
haps 20,000,  had  collected  in  the  streets  of  Wash- 
ington to  see  this  parade.  I  was  standing  on  the 
steps  of  the  Treasury  Department  with  Mrs.  Stan- 
ton and  one  of  the  ladies  of  General  Dix's  family, 
waiting  to  see  the  column  march  past,  when  along 
came  a  friend  of  mine,  Mr.  Kennedy,  of  the  Cen- 
sus Bureau,  who  was  a  well-known  figure  in  Wash- 
ington, and  one  of  the  first  to  hear  anything  new. 
He  informed  us  that  the  parade  would  not  take 
place.  I  was  amazed  at  this  announcement,  and 
hurried  to  the  office  of  General  Dix  and  asked  him 
if  the  rumor  had  any  foundation,  but  he  said  it 
had  not.  I  told  him  where  I  got  the  information, 
and  went  with  him  to  the  office  of  Mr.  Stanton, 
who  said  he  had  not  heard  of  it.  They  said  they 
would  both  go  to  the  White  House  and  confer  with 
the  President  on  the  subject,  but  would  first  call 
at  the  State  Department  and  see  if  Secretary 
Black  knew  anything  about  it;  they  asked  me, 
liowever,  to  go  in  advance  to  the  AVhite  House 
and  ''break  the  ice." 

When  I  reached  the  White  House  I  learned  that 
the  President  was  at  the  AVar  Department.  Mr. 
Holt  had  been  recently  appointed  Secretary  of 
War,  and  was  engaged  with  the  President  when 
I  arrived  at  the  War  Department.  The  messen- 
gers had  received  orders  not  to  announce  anybod}^, 
nor  to  take  in  cards.  While  waiting  in  the  recep- 
tion room  I  spoke  in  a  very  loud  tone  of  voice, 
which  finally  reached  Mr.  Buchanan,  who  came  to 
the  door,  and  in  a  low  tone  asked  what  all  this  ex- 


GENERAL  SICKLES  19 

citement  was  about.  I  then  told  him  that  I  had 
heard  that  the  order  for  the  parade  had  been 
countermanded,  and  that  thousands  of  people  who 
had  gathered  in  the  streets  of  Washington  to  wit- 
ness it  would  be  greatly  disappointed.  I  said  that 
they  would  not  stand  for  such  vacillation.  The 
Secretary  of  War,  who  was  a  Kentuckian — a  Bor- 
der-State Conservative — had  his  head  bowed  in 
his  hands,  and  I  was  firmly  convinced  by  his  man- 
ner that  he  was  the  one  who  was  responsible  for 
the  countermand.  Mr.  Buchanan  finally  said  that 
he  had  no  idea  that  there  would  be  so  much  fuss 
made  about  the  matter,  and  that,  as  the  parade 
could  not  possibly  do  any  harm,  he  directed  the 
Secretary  of  War  to  notify  General  Scott  that  the 
countermand  had  been  revoked,  and  that  the  par- 
ade might  go  on.  Whereupon  the  Secretary 
jumped  out  of  his  chair  and,  taking  his  hat  said 
he  would  deliver  the  order  in  person  to  General 
Scott,  and  not  stop  to  write  a  letter. 

As  soon  as  Mr.  Holt  left  the  room  Mr.  Buchanan 
broke  into  a  laugh,  exclaiming  that  I  had  been 
lashing  Judge  Holt  over  his  shoulders;  that  the 
Secretary  of  War  had  nothing  to  do  with  the  order 
for  the  countermand.  In  fact,  he  was  angered 
at  the  countermand  and,  said  the  President,  "I 
have  had  difficulty  in  persuading  him  not  to  re- 
sign." The  President  insisted  that  I  must  hum- 
bly apologize  to  Judge  Holt  when  he  returned. 
Thereupon  the  President  sat  down  and  began  to 
write  a  letter  to  Mr.  Tyler,  explaining  what  had 
happened,  since  it  was  at  his  request  that  the 
countermand  had  been  issued.  Sheet  after  sheet 
of  paper  was  torn  up  by  Mr.  Buchanan,  who  was 
evidently  not  able  to  express  himself  satisfac- 
torily on  paper,  whereupon  he  arose  and  said  he 


20  LINCOLN   FELLOWSHIP 

would  go  and  see  Mr.  Tyler  and  make  an  expla- 
nation in  person.  At  that  moment  Judge  Holt 
returned,  when  he  promptly  united  with  me  in  an 
earnest  remonstrance  against  the  proposed  visit 
to  Mr.  Tyler,  pointing  out  to  the  President  that  it 
would  be  time  enough  for  an  explanation  when 
Mr.  Tyler  chose  to  go  to  the  White  House  and 
ask  for  it.  This  ended  the  incident.  The  parade 
went  on — the  multitude  of  spectators  enjoyed  it. 
Judge  Holt  and  I  became  the  best  of  friends.  And 
no  apology  was  made  to  Mr.  Tyler ! 

My  first  impressions  of  Lincoln  I  got  from 
Stephen  A.  Douglas.  I  must  confess  that  when 
I  heard  of  Lincoln's  nomination,  I  was  disap- 
pointed, so  I  went  to  see  Senator  Douglas  and 
asked  him  whether  Lincoln  was  anything  more 
than  a  good  stump  orator. 

Douglas  said:  "Don't  make  any  mistake  about 
Lincoln;  he  is  one  of  the  most  brilliant  men  I 
have  ever  encountered.  It  is  true  he  is  a  man  of 
humble  origin;  he  has  never  held  any  important 
public  office,  having  spent  but  one  term  in  Con- 
gress and  two  or  three  in  the  Legislature  of  Illi- 
nois, where  he  cut  no  great  figure.  He  will  prove 
to  be  a  most  popular  candidate,  and  it  will  require 
all  the  efforts  of  the  united  Democratic  party  to 
defeat  him." 

From  that  moment,  appreciating  Douglas' 
knowledge  of  Lincoln,  I  for  the  first  time  regarded 
him  as  formidable. 

I  first  met  Mr.  Lincoln  in  the  latter  part  of 
February,  1861,  when  he  came  to  Washington  to 
be  inaugurated.  He  came  down  to  the  House  of 
Representatives  for  an  informal  visit  to  his 
friends  in  Congress.  Instead  of  going  over  to  the 
Republican  side  of  the  House,  he  went  first  to 


GENERAL  SICKLES  21 

the  Democratic  side.  But  none  of  the  leaders 
came  forward  to  meet  him.  I  said  to  Mr.  S.  S. 
Cox,  who  was,  like  myself,  one  of  the  youngest 
members  of  the  House:  "Suppose  you  and  I  go 
forward  and  meet  Mr.  Lincoln?" 

He  acted  upon  my  suggestion,  and  Mr.  Seward, 
with  whom  I  was  well  acquainted,  presented  us 
to  Lincoln.  Lincoln  said  that  he  was  surprised  to 
see  the  kind  of  man  I  was,  since  he  expected  to  find 
a  man  as  tall  as  he  was,  quite  broad  shouldered, 
athletic,  and  able  to  take  care  of  himself  in  any 
kind  of  a  scrap.  He  said  that  he  found  me  a  slen- 
der, scholarly-like  young  man,  quite  the  opposite 
of  what  he  had  fancied  from  hearing  about  the  do- 
ings in  Tammany  Hall.  We  chatted  for  some  mo- 
ments, and  then,  when  some  of  the  leaders  on  our 
side  came  forward,  we  retired. 

''The  next  morning  I   received  an  invitation  _^  _ 

from  Seward  to  dine  with  him  at  his  residence.  ^'^S 
My  relations  with  the  Senator  had  been  intimate,  ^ot; 
because  I  was  the  only  Democratic  member  of  the  £ 

House  who  voted  for  the  Pacific  Railroad  Bill.  ~ 

Seward  had  charge  of  that  bill  in  the  Senate,  and  ^ 

I  frequently  had  consultations  with  him  in  regard 
to  its  progress  through  the  House.  On  one  of 
these  occasions  a  note  had  been  brought  to  Mr. 
Seward  asking  him  to  secure  social  invitations  for 
some  of  his  constituents  who  did  not  know  that 
Mr.  Seward  himself  was  not  welcome  at  these 
parties.  Mr.  Seward  said  that  he  was  very  much 
embarrassed,  and  did  not  know  what  to  do.  I 
said  if  you  will  get  me  the  cards  of  your  friends, 
I  will  undertake  to  secure  invitations  for  them, 
and  will  do  so  as  often  as  may  be  necessary.  He 
expressed   great  pleasure   at   this,   and   said  he 


5^4*. 


'2-2  LINCOLN   FELLOWSHIP 

would  be  happy  to  do  anything  for  me  should  the 
opportunity  present  itself. 

At  the  dinner,  no  politics  were  discussed,  but 
after  it  was  over  he  took  me  into  the  library  and 
showed  me  some  sheets  from  the  forthcoming  in- 
augural address  of  Mr.  Lincoln.  He  proceeded 
to  read  extracts  from  the  address  in  which  Mr. 
Lincoln  declared  his  firm  belief  in  the  constitu- 
tionality of  the  fugitive  slave  law,  and  also  that 
he  regarded  the  institution  of  slavery  as  a  state 
matter — free  from  interference  by  the  Federal 
government,  and  he  went  so  far  as  to  declare  that 
he  would  favor  a  constitutional  amendment  pro- 
viding for  the  non-interference  of  the  Federal 
government  with  the  institution  of  slavery  in  the 
states  where  it  existed,  but  he  protested  against 
the  extension  of  slavery  into  free  territory. 

I  confess  I  was  profoundly  impressed  with 
what  I  regarded  as  the  statesmanlike  character 
of  these  utterances,  and  I  decided  to  go  to  the 
White  House  and  communicate  them  to  the 
President.  Notwithstanding  the  fact  that  the 
hour  was  late  and  that  the  President  had  retired, 
I  was  summoned  to  his  bedroom,  and  there  told 
him  about  these  extracts.  The  President  ex- 
pressed the  greatest  contempt  for  my  communi- 
cation, and  asked  me  how  long  since  I  had  be- 
come the  messenger  for  such  a  wily  politician  as 
Mr.  Seward.  I  told  him  that  I  had  the  highest  re- 
spect for  Mr.  Seward,  who  was  a  United  States 
Senator  from  New  York,  and  had  also  been  Gov- 
ernor of  my  state,  and  that  my  personal  relations 
with  him  had  long  been  so  intimate  as  to  forbid 
the  possibility  of  any  deceit  or  misrepresentation. 
Mr.  Buchanan  finally  said  that  if  Mr.  Lincoln 
gave  utterance  to  such  sentiments  in  his  inaugural 


GENERAL  SICKLES  23 

address  they  would  have  a  far-reaching  effect  in 
promoting  peace.  Mr.  Buchanan  said  that  he 
would  be  present  alongside  of  Mr.  Lincoln  when 
his  address  was  being  delivered,  although  it  would 
mean  a  certain  amount  of  danger  to  all  who  were 
there.  I  was  near  Mr.  Buchanan  on  the  4th  of 
March,  in  front  of  the  Capitol,  and  heard  Lin- 
coln's inaugural,  and  when  he  had  finished  utter- 
ing the  above  sentiments  the  joy  of  Buchanan 
could  not  be  restrained. 

He  said  to  me:  "Thank  God!  That  means 
peace!    Mr.  Lincoln  is  a  statesman." 

After  General  Hooker  took  command  of  the 
Army,  Lincoln  and  Mrs.  Lincoln  and  their  little 
boy  Tad  came  down  to  the  camp  for  a  visit.  As 
we  had  no  houses  about  the  camp,  they  were  all 
lodged  in  tents  at  headquarters.  I  went  over  and 
invited  Lincoln  and  his  family  to  visit  the  Third 
Army  Corps,  under  my  command,  which  was  the 
largest  in  the  army  at  that  time.  I  mounted  Tad 
on  a  pony  belonging  to  my  bugler,  which  made 
the  lad  feel  very  proud,  and  I  gave  the  bugler 
one  of  my  horses,  with  orders  to  act  as  Tad's 
orderly  and  do  whatever  Tad  wished  done.  Mrs. 
Lincoln  did  not  feel  well  enough  to  join  the  Presi- 
dent, so  he  came  alone,  accompanied  only  by  Tad. 
My  soldiers,  of  course,  were  told  of  the  visit,  and 
they  gave  the  President  an  enthusiastic  reception 
which  pleased  Lincoln  very,  very  much.  I  desig- 
nated about  150  mounted  officers  in  full  uniform 
to  meet  him  at  his  entrance  to  my  camp  and  es- 
cort him  to  headquarters.  Some  thirty  ladies  had 
assembled,  anxious  to  see  the  President.  One  of 
them  came  up  to  me  and  said:  "The  President 
seems  to  have  a  very  sad  look." 

I  said:  "Maybe  we  can  do  something  to  make 


24  LINCOLN   FELLOWSHIP 

him  more  cheerful.  Suppose  you  form  a  line  of 
ladies  and  each  of  you  give  him  a  kiss." 

That  proposition  did  not  receive  much  favor, 
as  there  was  no  one  willing  to  take  the  lead.  I 
spoke  to  the  Princess  Salm-Salm  about  it,  and  she 
agreed  to  lead  off,  but  she  did  not  see  how  she 
could  reach  the  President,  as  he  was  so  very  tall — 
six  feet,  four. 

I  said:  ''Maybe  the  President  will  meet  you 
halfway,  that  is,  I  think  he  will  lean  down  a  lit- 
tle." 

The  Princess  Salm-Salm  was  a  charming 
woman,  the  American  wife  of  Prince  Salm-Salm, 
an  officer  in  the  Prussian  Army,  commanding  a 
regiment  in  the  Eleventh  Army  Corps.  After  I 
had  formed  the  ladies  in  line,  she  went  up  to  him, 
and  sure  enough  he  leaned  down  a  little,  and  the 
other  ladies  followed  her  example  with  broad 
smiles  and  laughter. 

After  that  Lincoln  was  cheerful.  But,  while 
all  is  well  that  ends  well,  this  did  not  end  so  very 
well  as  Little  Tad  carried  the  story  over  to  the 
camp  where  his  mother  was,  and  when  she  heard 
of  it  she  gave  the  President  a  long  curtain  lecture. 
Of  course,  the  talk  between  them  in  the  camp  was 
overheard,  as  they  were  in  a  tent,  and  it  was  soon 
known  by  everyone  that  Lincoln  had  been  called 
to  account. 

The  next  morning  I  went  over  to  headquarters, 
but  was  advised  to  keep  away  from  Mrs.  Lincoln, 
as  she  had  l:)een  informed  that  I  was  the  one  who 
had  suggested  the  kissing  performance. 

When  Mr.  Lincoln  was  ready  to  return  to 
Washington,  I  was  designated  by  the  Command- 
ing General  to  accompany  him  to  the  steamer  and 
return  with  him  and  his  family  to  the  White 


GENERAL  SICKLES  25 

House.  The  President  chatted  freely  with  me, 
and  when  the  time  came  for  dinner  we  all  went 
to  the  table.  Mrs.  Lincoln  was  very  reserved. 
Mr.  Lincoln  kept  up  a  string  of  anecdotes,  telling- 
story  after  story,  but  there  was  not  a  word  to  be 
had  from  Mrs.  Lincoln.  Finally,  the  President 
said  to  me  that  he  had  heard,  while  in  camp,  that 
I  was  '^a  very  pious  man." 

I  said  that  if  I  enjoyed  such  a  reputation  as 
that  I  felt  sure  that  I  did  not  deserve  it. 

The  President  said  that  since  he  had  been  in 
camp  he  had  heard  that  I  was  "a  great  psalmist." 
I  replied,  that  while  I  read  the  Psalms,  as  every 
intelligent  person  did,  I  was  not  on  that  account 
entitled  to  be  known  as  a  pious  man  or  as  a 
'Psalmist.'  " 

The  President  then  exclaimed:  "Sickles,  I  have 
not  only  heard  while  in  your  camp  that  you  are 
a  Psalmist,  but  I  heard  from  the  best  authority 
that  you  are  a  *Salm-Salmist.'  " 

This  bold  allusion  to  the  kissing  incident  at 
once  softened  Mrs.  Lincoln's  resentment.  She 
joined  in  the  laugh,  and,  offering  me  her  hand, 
amiably  said  she  would  "let  bygones  be  bygones." 
{Laughter  and  applause.) 

I  am  sorry,  gentlemen,  to  have  detained  you  so 
long,  and  thank  you  for  your  kind  appreciation 
of  my  remarks.     (Applause.) 

The  President  :  I  am  glad  to  announce  that  we 
have  with  us  to-night  the  author  of  "Lincoln  as  a 
Lawyer,"  and  I  take  pleasure  in  introducing  Mr. 
Frederick  Trevor  Hill. 

BIr.  Hill  spoke  of  his  experiences  in  gathering 
material  for  his  writings   about  Abraham  Lin- 


26  LINCOLN   FELLOWSHIP 

coin  and  the  competition  among  the  school  chil- 
dren in  1909. 

The  President:  One  of  our  members,  who  is 
an  enthusiastic  and  successful  collector,  has  been 
privileged  to  visit  the  Lincoln  Country,  and  I  ask 
him  to  tell  us  of  his  journey.  I  am  happy  to  intro- 
duce Mr.  Orra  L.  Stone. 

Mr.  Stone  gave  a  very  interesting  account  of 
his  pilgrimage  to  the  homes  and  country  made 
famous  by  association  with  Lincoln. 

Mr.  Hill  and  Mr.  Stone  requested  that  their  re- 
marks he  not  reported. 

The  President:  We  will  now  return  to  the 
older  generation  and  I  will  call  upon  our  friend, 
General  Wilson,  who  enjoyed  the  privilege  of  inti- 
mate acquaintance  with  the  Martyr  President. 

Speech  of  Gen.  Jas.  Grant  Wilson 

Mr.  President:  As  the  hour  is  too  late  for  me 
to  make  a  speech,  I  will  simply  relate  a  short 
Lincoln  story  before  leaving  this  pleasant  party. 
During  the  year  1864,  when  I  happened  to  be  in 
Washington^  David  Tod,  then  War  Governor  of 
Ohio,  and  later,  American  Minister  to  the  Court 
of  Brazil,  come  to  the  Capital  to  consult  with  the 
War  Department,  and  the  President,  on  business 
of  the  State  with  the  Government. 

When  the  official  interview  with  the  Chief 
Magistrate  was  concluded,  Mr.  Lincoln,  in  the 
course  of  a  friendly  conversation,  remarked:  "I 
observe,  Governor,  that  you  spell  your  name  with 
one  D.  Perhaps  you  are  not  aware  that  I  mar- 
ried into  the  well-known  Todd  family  of  Ken- 


GENERAL   WILSON  27 

tucky,  and  they  always  spell  their  name  with  two 
D's,"  adding:  ''How  is  it  you  spell  your  name 
with  only  one  D  instead  of  two?" 

Governor  Tod  promptly  replied:  "Mr.  Presi- 
dent, God  spells  his  name  with  one  D,  and  one  D 
is  enough  for  the  Governor  of  Ohio."  {Ap- 
plause.) 

As  General  Wilson's  condition  of  health  un- 
fortunately compelled  him  to  leave  at  eleven 
o'clock,  he  kindly  complied  with  the  committee's 
request  and  supplied  the  speech  that  he  purposed 
delivering  had  he  been  well  enough  to  have  re- 
mained to  the  close  of  the  entertainment. 

Geneeal  Wilson  ^s  Undelivered  Addeess 

With  pride  and  pleasure,  I  appear  in  this 
place  and  in  this  presence,  as  one  of  the  sur- 
vivors— General  Sickles  being  another — of  al- 
most three  millions  of  Lincoln  soldiers  and 
sailors,  who  served  in  the  Army  and  Navy 
of  the  United  States  during  what  is  officially 
designated  as  the  War  of  the  Rebellion.  Of 
the  2,778,304  men  who  on  land  and  sea  fought 
for  four  fateful  years  that  this  nation  should  not 
perish  from  the  earth,  less  than  one-fifth  of  the 
number  are  now  living,  the  others  having  com- 
pleted life's  journey  and  passed  on 

To  where,  beyond  these  voices,  there  is  peace, 

to  join  the  Martyr-President.  In  a  few  decades 
the  last  survivor  who  followed  the  dear  old  flag 
on  the  fields  of  Shiloh,  Gettysburg,  Vicksburg, 
Chattanooga,  and  Mobile  Bay,  will  have  "crossed 
the  bar,"  joining  their  illustrious  leaders.  Grant, 


28  LINCOLN   FELLOWSHIP 

Farragiit,  Sherman,  Sheridan,  and  Lincoln — 
greatest  of  them  all — in  honor  of  whose  gracious 
memory  we  are  gladly  asseml)led  here  this  even- 
ing. 

It  is  among  the  greatest  mysteries  of  modern 
history  that  the  child  born  in  annus  mirabilis 
1809,  of  illiterate  and  impoverished  parents,  with- 
out any  educational  or  other  advantages  what- 
soever, should,  through  life,  have  always  been  a 
leader  and  master  of  men.  For  centuries,  schol- 
ars have  in  vain  searched  for  the  sources  from 
which  Shakespeare  drew  the  inspiration  that 
placed  him  first  among  the  sons  of  men.  Lincoln 
biographers  have  been  equally  baffled  in  similar 
attempts  to  discover  from  whence  came  the  truly 
wonderful  power  to  control  and  lead  all  sorts  and 
conditions  of  his  fellow  men,  that  was  certainly 
possessed  by  the  son  of  poor  whites  of  Kentucky, 
whose  rude  log  cabin  I  visited  in  company  with 
President  Roosevelt  a  year  ago  to-day. 

As  a  youth,  Abraham  Lincoln's  alertness,  skill, 
and  streng-tli  easily  made  him  a  recognized  leader 
among  his  rough  companions  in  their  amusements 
and  contests.  When  a  company  was  raised  in  his 
county  for  the  Black  Hawk  War,  Lincoln,  then 
but  twenty-three  years  of  age,  was  unanimously 
elected  by  his  seniors  their  Captain,  which,  as  he 
assured  your  speaker,  gave  him  greater  pleasure 
than  his  elevation  to  the  Presidency.  At  the  Il- 
linois bar,  he  was  early  recognized  by  his  in- 
tegrity and  ready  wit,  as  the  superior  of  his 
duller  associates.  As  a  political  debater,  Lincoln 
defeated  Douglas,  one  of  the  ablest  speakers  of 
the  United  States  Senate,  and  but  a  brief  period 
passed  as  President,  before  the  gifted  statesmen 
of  his  distinguished  Cabinet  recognized  him  as 


GENERAL    WILSON  29 

their  master.  Grant  praised  Lincoln  as  being  in 
military  matters  superior  to  many  of  his  promi- 
nent generals,  and  I  heard  my  old  commander, 
Sherman,  say,  that  the  President  was  among  the 
ablest  strategists  of  the  war.  The  beau  sahreur 
Sheridan  shared  the  opinion  of  his  two  seniors. 

It  was  my  peculiar  privilege  to  hear  several 
of  the  most  famous  speeches  delivered  during, 
and  before,  the  Civil  War,  by  the  great  American 
who  stands  second  only  to  Washington.  Abraham 
Lincoln  was  not  only  one  of  the  wisest  of  men 
and  an  astute  statesman,  but  the  English-speak- 
ing world  is  now  aware  that  he  was  also  among 
its  very  greatest  orators.  This  fact  was  not  ap- 
preciated during  his  short  life  of  fifty-six  years. 
The  flowers  of  rhetoric  are  conspicuous  by  their 
absence  from  his  speeches,  but  it  may  be  doubted 
if  Demosthenes,  Chatham,  or  Webster  could  have 
found  equally  as  fit  words  to  express  the  broad 
philosophy  and  the  exquisite  pathos  of  the  Gettys- 
burg Address.  Oxford  University,  passing  by  the 
brilliant  orations  of  Burke  ^  and  Gladstone,  ex- 
hibits as  a  model  of  perfect  English  the  two-min- 
ute speech  of  the  uneducated  backwoodsman. 
Lincoln's  Second  Inaugural  is  among  the  most 
famous  spoken  or  written  utterances  in  our  lan- 
guage. Portions  of  it  have  been  compared  to  the 
lofty  lines  of  the  ancient  Hebrew  poets,  and  as 
being 

** Sublime  as  Milton's  immemorial  theme." 

Owing  to  the  circumstance  of  my  escorting  the 
daughter  and  daughter-in-law  of  the  Secretary  of 
State,  I  was  seated  within  a  few  yards  of  the 
President  when  he  delivered  this  immortal  ad- 


30  LINCOLN   FELLOWSHIP 

dress,  and  deem  it  among  tlie  most  fortunate 
events  of  my  life  that  it  was  my  i)rivilege  to  be 
present. 

I  well  remember  as  a  youth,  the  nation's  grief 
over  the  death  of  the  distingaiished  Kentuckian, 
Henry  Clay ;  the  widespread  mourning  occasioned 
by  the  departure  of  New  England's  majestic 
Webster,  and  sorrow  caused  by  the  passing  away 
of  famous  Farragut,  followed  by  the  illustrious 
triumvirate,  Grant,  Sherman,  and  Sheridan,  but 
never  except  in  the  death  of  Lincoln,  did  the 
country  witness  such  sincere  sorrow  among  the 
plain  people  and  the  race  that  he  had  liberated; 
also  such  numbers  of  soldiers  and  sailors  shed- 
ding tears  for  the  great  President  whom  many  had 
never  beheld.  Children  were  seen  crying  in  the 
streets.  Never  before,  it  has  been  truthfully  said 
by  Lowell,  was  funeral  panegyric  so  eloquent  as 
the  silent  look  of  sympathy  which  strangers  ex- 
changed on  that  day.  Their  common  manhood 
had  lost  a  kinsman.  Grant  remarked  to  your 
speaker  that  the  day  of  Lincoln's  death  was  the 
saddest  of  his  life.  The  great  war  President's 
was  a  life  that  made  a  vast  difference  to  all 
Americans;  all  are  better  off  than  if  he  had  not 
lived ;  and  this  betterness  is  for  always,  it  did  not 
die  with  him — that  is  the  true  estimate  of  a  great 
life. 

Theodore  Roosevelt  said  of  his  three  greatest 
predecessors  among  the  twenty-four  Presidents 
of  the  United  States:  "Washington  fought  in  the 
earlier  struggle,  and  it  was  his  good  fortune  to 
win  the  highest  renown  alike  as  a  soldier  and 
statesman.  In  the  second  and  even  greater  strug- 
gle, the  deeds  of  Lincoln  the  statesman  were  made 
good  by  those  of  Grant  the  soldier,  and  later 


GENERAL   WILSON  31 

Grant  himself  took  up  the  work  that  dropped  from 
Lincoln's  tired  hands  when  the  assassin's  bullet 
went  home,  and  the  sad,  patient,  kindly  eyes  were 
closed  forever." 

What,  we  may  ask,  would  have  been  the  history 
of  our  country  without  these  three  mighty  men? 
It  certainly  may  be  questioned  if  we  could  have 
achieved  independence  without  Washington,  and 
it  is  equally  open  to  doubt  if  the  Republic  could 
have  maintained  its  integrity  without  Lincoln  and 
Grant.  National  unity  is  no  longer  a  theory  but 
a  condition,  and  we  are  now  forever  united  in  fact, 
as  well  as  in  name.  In  the  words  of  the  greatest 
of  poets : 

Those  opposed  eyes 
Which,  like  the  meteors  of  a  troubled  heaven. 
All  of  one  nature,  of  one  substance  bred, 
Did  lately  meet  in  the  intestine  shock. 
Shall  now  in  mutual,  well-beseeming  ranks, 

March  all  one  way. 

It  is  perhaps  the  greatest  glory  of  this  trium- 
virate of  uncrowned  American  kings,  that  they 
were  alike  spotless  in  all  the  varied  relations  of 
private  life.  Their  countrymen  will  continue  to 
cherish  their  memory  far  on  in  summers  that  we 
shall  not  see,  and  upon  the  adamant  of  their  fame, 
the  stream  of  time  will  beat  without  injury.  The 
names  of  Washington  the  founder,  Lincoln  the 
liberator,  and  Grant  the  savior  of  our  country, 
are  enrolled  in  the  Capitol,  and  they  belong  to 
the  endless  and  everlasting  ages. 

The  President:  One  of  the  best  authenticated 
anecdotes  of  Lincoln  is  that  told  on  the  authority 
of  his  intimate  friend,  Joshua  Speed,  who  relates 


32  LINCOLN   FELLOWSHIP 

the  story  known  to  most  of  you  concerning  the 
first  lightning  rod  erected  in  Springfield,  and 
which  was  the  first  that  Lincoln  had  seen.  It  was 
this  that  aroused  his  interest  in  the  subject  of 
electricity,  and  I  am  happy  to  show  you,  as  I  do 
now,  a  piece  of  that  lightning  rod.  It  appears 
that  George  Forquer,  a  prominent  lawyer,  for- 
merly a  Whig,  had  gone  over  to  the  opposite  party 
and  soon  thereafter  received  an  appointment  to  a 
lucrative  office.  In  a  political  meeting,  Lincoln 
was  taken  to  task  by  Forquer,  who  sneeriugly 
commented  upon  the  youth  of  the  former,  and 
said  that  he  must  be  taken  down.  Replying,  Lin- 
coln said:  "  I  am  not  so  young  in  years  as  I  am 
in  the  tricks  and  trades  of  a  politician;  but,  live 
long  or  die  young,  I  would  rather  die  now,  than, 
like  the  gentleman,  change  my  politics,  and  simul- 
taneous with  the  change  receive  an  office  worth 
$3,000  per  year,  and  then  have  to  erect  a  lightning 
rod  over  my  house  to  protect  a  guilty  conscience 
from  an  offended  God." 

We  have  with  us  a  member  who  has  contrib- 
uted valuable  information  concerning  Mr.  Lin- 
coln's interest  in  applied  electricity,  and  I  have 
great  pleasure  in  calling  upon  Mr.  David  Homer 
Bates,  Author  of  **  Lincoln  in  the  Telegraph  Of- 
fice."    (Applause.) 

Speech  of  Mr.  David  Homer  Bates 

Mr.  President:  I  am  glad  to  be  with  so  many 
friends  of  Mr.  Lincoln,  and  to  contribute  a  few 
experiences  of  my  own  to  those  which  have  al- 
ready been  given.  At  the  beginning  of  the  war, 
I  was  a  telegraph  operator  under  Mr.  Carnegie, 
who  sent  for  operators  on  the  Pennsylvania  Rail- 


MR.  BATES  33 

road  lines,  to  go  to  Washington  and  take  service 
with  the  government.  Four  of  us  arrived  on 
April  27,  1861.  Only  one  other  of  the  party, 
Richard  O'Brien,  now  of  Scranton,  is  still  living. 
I  saw  a  great  deal  of  Mr.  Lincoln  up  to  the  time 
that  he  was  assassinated,  as  it  was  his  habit  to 
come  into  the  War  Department  telegraph  office 
both  day  and  night.  I  remember  him  distinctly, 
notwithstanding  the  years  that  have  come  and 
gone  since  that  time. 

Mr.  Carnegie  was  at  that  time  superintendent 
of  the  Pittsburg  Division  of  the  Pennsylvania 
Railroad,  and  it  was  his  message  that  brought  us 
into  the  government  service.  On  our  way  there, 
we  traveled  on  the  steamboat  "Maryland,"  and 
then  went  to  Annapolis.  The  telegraph  office  was 
in  the  southeastern  part  of  the  old  historical  War 
Department  building,  torn  down  in  1879  to  make 
room  for  the  present  War,  State,  and  Navy  De- 
partment building.  The  telegraph  office  was  aft- 
erwards moved  into  another  part  of  the  old  build- 
ing. I  was  on  duty  from  that  time  on  until  An- 
gust,  1866,  and  until  his  death  met  Mr.  Lincoln 
almost  daily,  except  when  he  was  absent  at  the 
front.  His  manner  to  me  was  always  that  of  a 
very  serious  man,  except  when  he  was  telling 
stories,  but  he  did  not  tell  so  many  as  he  had  the 
reputation  of  telling.  A  great  many  anecdotes 
which  are  attributed  to  him  I  have  heard  from  the 
lips  of  other  men.  In  writing  my  "Lincoln  in  the 
Telegraph  Office"  I  was  careful  not  to  include  any 
anecdote  which  could  not  be  traced  to  him  with 
certainty.  I  am  free  to  say  that  I  found  it  im- 
possible to  verify  many  stories  which  are  usually 
credited  to  Lincoln  and  the  task  of  tracing  au- 
thorities was  one  of  great  difficulty. 


34  LINCOLN   FELLOWSIilP 

To  speak  of  Lincoln  without  mentioning:  his 
habit  of  telling  stories  would  be  like  leaving  Ham- 
let out  of  the  play  of  that  name. 

Lincoln  had  the  delightful  quality  of  humor  as 
distinguished  from  wit.  Humor  is  creative  and 
breeds  happiness,  wit,  per  se,  is  destructive  and 
often  leaves  in  its  trail  an  angry  feeling.  Lincoln 
never  in  my  hearing  uttered  a  remark  that  left  a 
sting  behind  it.  He  seemed  to  be  always  on  the 
lookout  to  do  or  say  something  to  put  the  com- 
pany present  in  a  pleasant  frame  of  mind. 

Sir  Francis  Burnaud,  long  Editor  of  "Punch," 
in  an  address  at  Chester,  England,  several  years 
ago,  said  in  substance  that  many  witticisms  which 
were  supposed  to  be  original  at  the  time  of  pub- 
lication in  Punch  had  been  copied  in  other  jour- 
nals, and  after  wandering  all  over  Europe  and 
America,  the  old  jokes  sadly  battered  and  dis- 
guised, were  often  brought  back  to  Mr.  Punch, 
who  was  expected  to  welcome  as  distinguished  for- 
eigners, the  children  of  his  own  creation  or  of 
which  he  was  a  godfather.  Sir  Francis  added  that 
Punch  kept  a  joke  index,  to  which,  in  such  cases, 
they  often  referred  only  to  discover  the  "fly  in 
the  amber." 

In  the  abstract,  this  principle  of  the  antiquity 
of  jokes  is  correct,  as  frequent  concrete  instances 
served  to  show.  The  only  one  of  Lincoln's  wit- 
ticisms which  I  do  not  recall  having  seen  in  print 
will  illustrate  this  point. 

In  the  War  Department  telegraph  office  adjoin- 
ing one  of  the  cipher  operator's  desks,  there  was, 
at  one  time,  an  old-fashioned  haircloth  lounge,  on 
which  the  President  sometimes  reclined  while 
waiting  for  news  from  the  front.  On  one  occa- 
sion he  was  seen  to  get  up  from  the  old  lounge 


MR.  BATES  35 

and  flick  from  his  vest  a  small  brown  bug  known 
to  entomologists  as  belonging  to  the  species 
"cimex  lectularius."  As  he  did  so,  he  looked 
around  with  his  usual  smile  when  emitting  humor, 
and  said:  "Well,  I  have  always  had  a  great  fond- 
ness for  that  old  settee,  but  now  that  it  has  be- 
come a  little  buggy  I  shall  have  to  give  it  up." 

Solomon  said  there  was  nothing  new  under  the 
sun.  One  of  the  flippant  phrases  of  our  own  day, 
*'He  bit  oif  more  than  he  can  chew,"  may  be  rec- 
ognized in  finer  words  in  our  Saviour's  sarcastic 
remark  to  the  Pharisees,  *' Ye  strain  at  a  gnat  and 
swallow  a  camel. ' '  And  again  the  adage,  ' '  Hand- 
some is  that  handsome  does,"  may  be  traced 
back  to  Christ's  saying,  also  to  the  Judean  gentry, 
"Ye  make  clean  the  platter  but  inwardly  ye  are 
ravening  wolves." 

I  cast  my  first  vote  for  Abraham  Lincoln  in  the 
year  1864,  and  I  shall  always  recollect  that  fact 
with  a  great  deal  of  pleasure. 

I  was  in  the  War  Department  Telegraph  Office 
during  the  four  years  of  Mr.  Lincoln's  wonderful 
national  career,  and  until  the  last  day  of  his  life, 
when,  with  my  comrades,  Mr.  Albert  B.  Chandler, 
now  of  Brooklyn,  Thomas  A.  Laird,  now  of  Buf- 
falo, George  C.  Maynard,  now  of  Washington,  and 
others,  we  transmitted  over  the  telegraph  wires 
those  remarkable  bulletins  written  by  Secretary  of 
War  Stanton  at  the  deathbed,  which  gave  the  first 
authentic  account  of  the  great  tragedy  which 
plunged  the  whole  nation  in  mourning.  On  the 
morning  of  the  day  of  his  death,  I  wrote  in  my 
war  diary  these  words,  which  I  think  will  indi- 
cate the  beautiful  character  of  Abraham  Lincoln 
as  it  appeared  to  me  then:  St.  James  IILl?, 
"First  pure,  then  peaceable,  gentle,  and  easy  to 


36  LINCOLN   FELLOWSHIP 

be  entreated,  full  of  mercy  and  good  fruits,  with- 
out partiality  and  without  hypocrisy."  {Ap- 
plause.) 

The  President:  Judge  Daniel  Fish,  of  Minne- 
apolis, whom  most  of  you  know  because  of  his  use- 
ful labors  in  Lincoln  bibliography,  is  with  us  this 
evening.  He  earnestly  requests,  however,  that  he 
be  not  called  upon  to  speak.  ( Vigorous  applause.) 
There,  Judge,  I  haven't  called  upon  you.  [Re- 
neived  applause.) 

Speech  of  Judge  Daniel  Fish 

Mr.  President  and  Gentlemen:  It  would  be 
churlish  in  me  not  to  respond  at  all  to  a  greeting  so 
urgent  and  so  evidently  friendly.  Still,  it  seems 
too  bad  to  mar  an  event  like  this  with  unconsid- 
ered talk  from  one  who  has  no  particular  message 
to  communicate,  or  none  that  is  not  better  ex- 
pressed by  the  mere  fact  of  his  presence;  and 
who  therefore  has  framed  no  thought  into  pre- 
sentable language.  Besides,  I  had  supposed  that 
the  contract  made  with  our  honored  chairman  was 
binding  and  enforceable,  so  that  both  you  and  I 
would  be  spared. 

My  great  joy  in  the  occasion  lies  in  the  gratifi- 
cation of  a  long-cherished  desire  to  meet  face  to 
face  a  group  of  gentlemen,  many  of  whom  I  have 
come  to  know  through  correspondence  in  the  pur- 
suit of  our  mutual  and  most  enjoyable  fad,  or  by 
reputation  as  writers  upon  themes  of  especial  in- 
terest to  this  company.  I  have  never  yet  come  in 
contact  with  any  man  or  woman  who  loved  the 
memory  and  character  of  Lincoln  whom  it  was  not 
both  safe  and  altogether  delightful  to  know.  As 
a  fellow  worshiper  at  the  same  crowded  shrine,  I 


JUDGE    FISH  37 

have  at  least  that  one  title  to  the  welcome  which 
you  have  so  cordially  extended. 

The  personal  note  can  hardly  be  avoided  at  such 
a  meeting'.  I  am  one  of  that  devoted  band  whose 
members  are  building  monuments  to  our  hero  in 
the  form  of  Lincoln  collections.  We  gather  up  the 
printed  memorabilia  of  our  hero,  of  which  there 
is,  and  is  to  be,  an  extraordinary  quantity,  with  a 
view  to  preserving  it  in  places  where  future  ad- 
mirers and  students  may  find  ready  access  to  a 
marvelous  store  of  contemporary  narrative,  opin- 
ion and  comment.  It  is  quite  safe  to  say  that, 
outside  of  sacred  history,  scarcely  one  man  other 
than  Shakespeare,  the  genius  of  all  nations  and 
ages,  has  evoked  a  personal  literature  so  copious 
and  varied.  We  reach  the  end  of  the  centennial 
year  to-night,  and  already  more  than  1,500  distinct 
books  and  pamphlets  have  been  catalogued,  repre- 
senting all  the  civilized  nations  and  tongues  of 
earth,  each  having  for  its  principal  topic  some 
phase  of  the  life,  sayings,  or  death  of  Abraham 
Lincoln.  Among  them  are  upward  of  150  ex- 
tended biographies.  Try  to  think  of  any  other 
man  of  whom  twenty,  or  even  ten,  biographies 
have  been  published!  There  seems  to  be  an  in- 
exhaustible market  for  the  Lincoln  story  in  the 
ever-renewing  affection  of  the  people. 

My  own  relation  to  this  zealous  coterie  of 
searchers  is  that  of  the  proverbial  hewer  of  wood 
and  drawer  of  water.  Whenever  there  is  a  puz- 
zling question  of  Lincoln  Bibliography  to  settle,  I 
am  the  "George"  who  is  permitted  to  "do  it" — 
at  least  for  the  moment.  And  when  it  is  done,  the 
other  cranks — or  some  of  them,  anyhow — sit  back 
and  emit  sarcastic  remarks.  I  try  to  define  the 
limits  of  legitimate  Lincolniana  in  the  one  class 


38  LINCOLN   FELLOWSHIP 

of  books  and  brochures,  while  they  '*cuss"  be- 
cause I  omit  some  doubtful  item  for  which  they 
have  been  induced  to  exchange  good  money.  But 
they  are  dear  fellows  for  all  that;  and  they  attend 
all  the  auctions,  and  make  my  few  desirable  ac- 
cessions very  dear  indeed. 

The  first  Lincoln  book  I  ever  bought  was  also 
my  first  purchase  of  any  book  that  was  not  either 
a  schoolbook  or  a  Beadle's  Dime  novel.  It  was 
**The  President's  Words,"  a  compilation  from 
the  speeches  and  writings  made  by  Edward  Ev- 
erett Hale,  now  of  blessed  memory.  This  was  on 
my  way  home  from  the  army  in  '65,  while  yet  in 
the  first  half  of  my  eighteenth  year.  The  book 
was  lost  during  the  boarding-house  days,  but,  of 
course,  was  thought  of  when  I  began  to  form  a 
Lincoln  library.  A  prolonged  search  for  another 
copy  ended  at  last  in  an  appeal  to  the  dear  old 
doctor  himself,  who  took  great  pains  to  find  and 
send  one  to  me.  The  incident  gives  me  pleasure 
for  two  reasons:  The  original  purchase  was  a 
boy's  unconscious  testimony  to  the  profound  in- 
fluence which  the  life  and  words  of  the  great  War 
President  exercised  over  all  of  us  in  the  rebellion 
days.  It  was  more  than  kingly.  And  the  re- 
acquirement  of  the  book,  nearly  thirty  years  later, 
brings  to  mind  the  many  pleasant  and  fruitful  ac- 
quaintanceships that  have  come  to  me  because  of 
the  labors  to  which  I  have  alluded. 

But  I  wish  to  listen  rather  than  talk.  I  want 
to  hear  from  our  venerable  rebel  friend,  McLellan 
— almost  the  only  rebel  I  have  known  who  never 
needed  reconstruction.  And  the  voice  of  that 
red-headed  cyclone  from  Kansas,  the  genial  and 
confiding  Judd  Stewart,  is  always  pleasing  to  me. 


JUDGE    FISH  39 

He  left  me  alone  with  his  choice  and  extensive  col- 
lection the  other  morning,  with  twenty  Jersey 
miles  and  the  Hudson  River  between  us.  A 
smelter  *' trust"  is  no  match  for  a  trust  like  that. 
I  want  to  hear  him  speak,  and  then  I  want  to  get 
away  from  New  York  before  he  misses  anything. 

But  I  mean  to  come  back  next  year,  if  I  can 
possibly  borrow  the  necessary  funds — unless  you 
will  come  West.  Minneapolis,  you  must  know,  is 
far  from  the  seaboard.  And  that  reminds  me  of 
Captain  Sigsbee  of  the  Maine,  who  visited  us  not 
long  ago.  We  gave  him  a  little  dinner  at  the  Club 
and  said  all  the  complimentary  things  that  oc- 
curred to  us.  One  speaker  commended  the  Navy 
for  having,  among  other  achievements,  '' driven 
piracy  from  the  high  seas."  The  Captain  (now 
Admiral,  I  believe,  or  hope)  had  been  induced,  in 
some  unguarded  moment,  to  buy  lots  in  one  of  our 
remote  ' '  additions. ' '  They  had  produced  nothing 
of  value  save  luxuriant  taxes  and  special  assess- 
ments. In  responding  he  referred  to  this  expe- 
rience, and  remarked  that  the  expulsion  of  piracy 
from  the  sea  was  a  service  for  which  the  navy 
could  claim  little  credit,  since  it  still  flourished 
only  a  short  distance  inland.    (Laughter.) 

So  if  you  come  to  Minneapolis  for  the  next  meet- 
ing, or  the  next,  and  are  tempted  to  buy  lots  too 
far  from  the  Courthouse,  remember  I  have  warned 
you.    (Applause.) 

The  Pkesident:  We  have  with  us  our  old 
friend,  Mr.  McLellan,  who  has  spoken  to  us  on  a 
previous  occasion,  giving  us  some  interesting 
reminiscences  of  his  intercourse  with  Mr.  Lin- 
coln, and  I  take  very  great  pleasure  in  calling 
upon  him  this  evening.     (Applause.) 


40  LINCOLN   FELLOWSHIP 

Speech  of  Mr.  Charles  W.  McLellan 

Mr.  President  and  Brothers  of  the  Lincoln  Fel- 
lowship: Although  one  of  the  four  present  with 
us  to-night  who  knew  and  conversed  with  Mr.  Lin- 
clon,  I  hesitate  to  speak  because  it  can  be  said  of 
me  that  I  saw  both  sides  of  the  Great  Question. 
Think  of  me  being  a  member  of  the  Springfield 
(Illinois)  Zouave  Grays,  drilled  by  Ellsworth, 
when  they  gave  in  1860  an  entertainment  in  the 
Public  Hall  in  Springfield  which,  I  feel  sure,  Mr. 
Lincoln  himself  attended,  and  then,  fifty  years 
later  (this  last  summer)  being  introduced  to  a 
postmaster  of  a  little  town  in  Florida,  who  said 
that  in  1861  he  was  in  a  Florida  regiment  sta- 
tioned at  Fort  Gaines,  and  who  could  claim  com- 
radeship with  me,  as  I  was  in  an  Alabama  regi- 
ment at  the  same  post  at  the  same  time.  Another 
circumstance  good  to  relate  in  this  connection  was 
told  me  by  a  member  of  our  Mobile  Cadets,  who 
became  a  merchant  in  Jacksonville,  and  who,  dur- 
ing the  Spanish  War  would  ask  boys  from  the 
camp  to  dine  at  his  home;  among  those  enter- 
tained one  Sunday  was  a  member  of  the  old  Mo- 
bile regiment  and  also  a  member  of  the  Spring- 
field company  from  Illinois,  now  side  by  side  in 
the  same  command  and  in  the  same  cause. 

Living  in  Springfield  during  the  exciting  days 
of  the  Debates  and  the  formative  period  of  the 
Republican  Party,  I  can  recall  many  incidents  of 
that  time.  The  day  of  Mr.  Lincoln's  nomination 
in  May,  1860,  he  was  in  a  store  adjoining  the  Bank 
where  I  was  employed,  and  with  others  I  rushed 
out  to  congratulate  him.  I  recall  Carl  Schurz 
coming  to  Springfield,  and  I  attended  a  great 


MR.    McLELLAN  41 

meeting  in  the  Representatives'  Hall  of  the  State 
House,  at  which  both  he  and  Lincoln  spoke. 

Quite  an  event  later  was  the  passage  through 
the  town  of  Mr.  William  H.  Seward  on  the  great 
tour  of  the  States  he  was  making  in  Mr.  Lincoln's 
behalf.  Hearing  of  his  expected  arrival  from  St. 
Louis  on  his  way  to  Chicago,  a  large  crowd  of  us 
accompanied  Mr.  Lincoln  to  the  Chicago  &  Alton 
Depot  to  greet  him.  As  the  train  came  to  a  stop 
several  climbed  into  the  car  windows  over  the 
shoulders  of  others,  and  as  the  great  men  clasped 
hands  I  landed  through  a  window  into  a  seat  right 
by  them. 

I  heard  Mr.  Seward's  graceful  words  as  he 
thanked  us  for  our  "kind  and  generous  reception 
at  the  home  of  your  distinguished  fellow  citizen, 
our  excellent  and  honored  candidate  for  the  chief 
magistracy  of  the  United  States."  He  then  spoke 
of  the  generous  and  cheerful  and  effective  support 
that  New  York  State  would  surely  give  our  neigh- 
bor, Abraham  Lincoln;  a  majority,  he  predicted, 
of  no  less  than  sixty  thousand,  adding:  ''The 
State  of  New  York  never  fails,  never  flinches ;  she 
voted  to  establish  this  (Illinois)  a  land  of  freedom 
for  you  in  1787;  she  sustained  the  Ordinance  of 
'87  '  till  you  were  able  to  take  care  of  yourselves ' ; 
she  will  sustain  your  distinguished  neighbor  be- 
cause she  knows  he  is  true  to  this  great  principle, ' ' 
etc. 

Mr.  Lincoln  replied  in  a  few  words:  ''Twelve 
years  ago  you  told  me  that  this  cause  would  be 
successful,  and  ever  since  I  have  believed  it  would 
be.  Even  if  it  did  not  succeed  now  my  faith 
would  not  be  shaken." 

The  noble  manner  in  which  Governor  Seward 
laelped  the  election  of  Lincoln  should  never  be  for- 


42  LINCOLN   FP]LLOWSHIP 

gotten.  James  Russell  Lowell  said  at  the  time :  "  I 
liave  ceased  to  regret  Mr.  Seward's  defeat,  for  his 
magnanimity  shown  since  the  result  of  the  Con- 
vention was  known,  has  been  a  greater  ornament 
to  him  and  a  greater  help  to  his  party  than  his 
election  to  the  Presidency  would  have  been." 

We  should  also  remember  the  deep  devotion 
which  Stephen  A.  Douglas  always  showed  to  the 
Union ;  his  life  was  seemingly  a  sacrifice  to  an  en- 
deavor to  compromise  and  delay.  But  a  few  days 
before  the  election  in  November,  1860, 1  heard  him 
deliver,  in  Mobile,  one  of  his  great  speeches.  It 
was  more  a  plea  for  the  Union  of  the  States,  a  pic- 
ture of  the  consequences  should  Alabama  secede, 
than  any  argument  for  his  own  election. 

Indeed,  we  were  each  one  as  a  man  carrying  a 
lantern  on  a  very  dark  night;  few  apprehended 
the  struggle  we  were  approaching.  It  seemed  im- 
possible to  see  the  relation  of  immediate  events  to 
the  whole  world  and  to  the  future;  but  as  time 
passes  and  Lincoln's  fame  and  genius  attain  the 
mountain  heights,  we  begin  to  realize  how  he 
alone  did  see  the  dangers  and  possibilities  in- 
volved. To  his  far-seeing,  prophetic  vision  the 
crisis  had  come  in  the  conflict  that  had  been  waged 
for  ages  between  Caste  and  Man,  of  privilege  and 
wealth  against  the  rights  of  the  individual;  the 
rule  of  the  few,  represented  by  the  Cavaliers  who 
came  to  the  South  and  meant  aristocracy;  against 
the  rule  of  all,  represented  by  the  Puritans  who 
came  to  our  northern  shores  and  meant  democ- 
racy. He  knew  and  realized  that  the  time  had 
come  to  determine,  not  so  much  the  immediate 
question  of  slavery  in  America,  or  whether  this 
particular   government   should  perish   from  the 


MR.    McLELLAN  43 

face  of  the  earth;  but  away  and  beyond  all  this, 
whether  the  humblest  individual  everywhere 
should  govern  himself  and  rise  to  the  highest  pos- 
sibilities of  manhood,  or  be  always  a  serf  to  priv- 
ilege and  wealth. 

A  distinguished  orator,  the  Hon.  Herbert  M. 
Heath,  of  Maine,  has  said:  "Mr.  Lincoln  brought 
to  his  high  office  the  broadest  knowledge  of  Ameri- 
can History  and  of  the  philosophy  of  our  system 
of  government.  He  had  absorbed  the  wisdom  of 
Franklin,  the  patriotism  of  Washington,  the  phi- 
losophy of  Hamilton,  the  democracy  of  Jefferson, 
the  courage  of  Jackson,  the  learning  of  Marshall. 
It  was  to  be  and  was  the  struggle  of  the  ages: 
Shall  self-government  exist  and  man  be  uplifted, 
not  simply  here,  not  simply  now,  but  everywhere 
and  for  all  time  to  come.  And  to  Abraham  Lin- 
coln was  committed  this  great  trust  of  humanity. 
He  knew  in  his  innermost  being  that  war  was  in- 
evitable ;  that  the  hour  had  come  for  the  republic 
to  be  baptized  in  blood." 

He  approached  it  with  a  charity,  a  tenderness, 
that  had  not  been  seen  in  the  earth  for  two  thou- 
sand years;  "not  one  word  of  malice  escaped  his 
lips  during  all  the  great  conflict.  He  was  reviled 
and  slandered,  'but  as  a  sheep  before  his  shearers 
is  dumb,  so  he  opened  not  his  mouth. '  His  entire 
administration  was  one  protracted  magnanimity. 
He  won  a  victory  over  the  South,  and  is  to-day 
our  strongest  appeal  to  the  South."*   {Applause.) 

The  President  :  I  will  now  call  upon  Mr.  Roth- 
schild, the  author  of  "Lincoln,  the  Master  of 
Men,"  which  contains  much  valuable  information 
about  Mr.  Lincoln,  presented  in  novel  and  inter- 
esting form.     {Applause.) 


44  LINCOLN   FELLOWSHIP 

Speech  of  Mr.  Alonzo  Rothschild 

Mr.  President  and  Gentlemen:  You  surely  do 
Dot  expect  me,  at  this  late  hour,  to  make  a  speech. 
I  had,  in  fact,  as  you  see,  just  gathered  up  my  be- 
longings in  the  shape  of  these  handsome  souvenirs, 
and  was  about  to  say  "finis"  to  a  most  enjoyable 
evening  when  our  respected  chairman  spake  my 
name.  He  was  under  no  contract,  as  he  was  with 
our  worthy  bibliographer.  Judge  Fish,  not  to  call 
on  me;  for  it  never  occurred  to  me  that  in  the 
presence  of  so  many  members  who  were  privileged 
to  know  Abraham  Lincoln  in  the  flesh,  your  pro- 
gram would  be  departed  from  to  the  extent  of  call- 
ing on  one  whose  knowledge  of  the  Martyr  Presi- 
dent has  all  been  gained,  so  to  say,  at  second  hand. 
I  came  to  learn,  not  to  teach,  to  listen,  not  to  speak, 
to  gather  somewhat  of  inspiration  from  the  words 
of  these  our  older  brothers,  and  I  have  not  been 
disappointed. 

It  has  been  a  delightful  experience  this  even- 
ing— for  this  is  the  first  meeting  of  the  Lincoln 
Fellowship  that  it  has  been  my  privilege  to  attend 
— to  look  into  the  faces  and  take  the  hands  of  so 
many  Lincoln  lovers  with  whom  I  had  already  be- 
come so  well  acquainted  through  the  medium  of 
kind  letters  and  many  courtesies.  I  am  reminded 
of  how  one  of  our  New  England  writers  visited 
Luther  Burbank,  and  introduced  himself  as  one 
who  was  interested  in  nature  and  in  Ralph  Waldo 
Emerson.  *' Emerson!"  said  Burbank,  extending 
both  hands,  *'I  love  any  man  who  loves  Emerson." 
It  is  no  mere  echo  of  that  incident  for  me  to  say : 
**I  love  any  man  who  loves  Lincoln."  And  now 
that  I  have  uttered  that  magic  name,  and  now  that 
I  have  entered  upon  that  theme,  I  verily  fear  that 


MR.   ROTHSCHILD  45 

if  I  do  not  watch  myself  I  shall  be  making  a 
speech  after  all.  For  he  would  be  slow  of  utter- 
ance indeed  whose  tongue  could  not  be  quickened 
in  this  presence  and  after  these  eloquent  ad- 
dresses into  some  expression  worthy  of  the  great 
memory  which  we  have  come  here  to-night  to  cele- 
brate. 

Like  Mr.  Hill,  to  whose  book  I  take  pleasure  in 
acknowledging  my  obligations,  I  approached  a 
study  of  Lincoln's  life  in  the  spirit  of  a  critic 
rather  than  that  of  a  eulogist.  It  seemed  to  me 
that  the  praise  was  overdone;  that  the  generation 
of  men  who  had  worked  and  fought  and  suffered 
with  Abraham  Lincoln,  who  had  passed  with  him 
through  the  fiery  furnace  of  that  terrible  con- 
flagration which  we  call  the  Civil  War,  and  who 
had  mourned  his  tragic  end  as  men  never  before 
mourned  the  death  of  a  public  leader,  were  par- 
tisans in  the  very  nature  of  the  case.  They  seemed 
in  a  fair  way  to  idealize  Lincoln  as  a  previous 
generation  had  idealized  another  great  American, 
and  that  we  were  in  danger  of  losing  the  man 
Lincoln  as  we  have  all  but  lost  the  true  Wash- 
ington. In  this  mood,  with  a  firm  determination 
to  seek  out  and  tell  the  truth  I  began  my  re- 
searches, resolved  to  "follow  copy,"  as  the  print- 
ers say,  if  it  blew  out  of  the  window.  As  my 
studies  proceeded,  I  became  impressed  at  every 
step  with  the  vastness  of  the  field  that  this  man 
had  dominated.  His  character  seems  to  grow  as 
the  panorama  of  war  and  diplomacy  unfolded  it- 
self before  my  astonished  eyes ;  and  as  the  meas- 
ure of  his  greatness  dawned  upon  me,  I  realized 
my  own  smallness  and  inefficiency.  It  did  not 
seem  possible  for  a  man  of  ordinary  attainments 
to  do  justice  to  Lincoln's  career.    I  began  to  think 


46  LINCOLN   FELLOWSHIP 

that  if  I  could  thoroughly  study  one  small  part 
of  his  achievements — perhaps  one  single  phase  of 
his  character — the  result  might  be  a  contribution 
not  wholly  unacceptable  to  the  growing  number  of 
people  who  are  devoting  themselves  to  a  better 
understanding  of  the  great  President. 

If  you  care  to  know  my  conclusion,  it  is  this: 
making  due  allowance  for  the  exaggeration  of 
hero-worship,  taking  into  the  account  the  epic 
strain  that  has  become  habitual  with  patriotic 
Americans,  I  believe  that  the  story  of  Abraham 
Lincoln  may  be  accepted  as  it  has  come  down  to 
us.  In  all  the  essentials  that  go  to  the  making  of  a 
great  national  hero,  he  responds  to  searching  criti- 
cal investigation  as  has  no  great  figure  in  history, 
within  my  perhaps  limited  knowledge.  Wher- 
ever I  applied  the  touchstone,  I  found  the  true 
metal — the  pure  gold. 

But  you  see  how  I  am  rambling  on.  I  am  re- 
minded of  a  committee-man  with  whom  I  once 
served.  He  concluded  a  lengthy  statement  with: 
' '  I  would  have  made  this  report  much  briefer  if  I 
had  had  time  to  prepare  it. ' '  Let  me  leave  with  you 
at  least  one  thought  that  passed  through  my  mind 
this  evening  as  I  sat  and  listened  to  our  speakers. 
Abraham  Lincoln's  most  important  contribution 
to  our  history  does  not  consist  in  the  immortal 
proclamation  that  led  to  the  emancipation  of  the 
slaves,  nor  in  the  fact  that  his  strong  hand  was  on 
the  helm  of  the  ship  of  state  when  it  tossed  in  the 
wildest  storm  that  any  nation  has  yet  encountered 
and  wholly  survived.  Those  things,  important  as 
they  are,  were  but  incidents  that  loom  large  in  our 
eyes  now ;  but  in  time  to  come  they  will  recede  into 
their  proper  places  in  the  perspective  of  history, 
as  if  they  were  but  mile-stones  on  the  eternal  high- 


MR.   ROTHSCHILD  47 

way  over  which  the  nations  of  the  earth  are  mov- 
ing. What,  then,  is  the  important  thing?  It  is 
the  man's  example — the  influence  of  his  character 
and  his  career  that  will,  as  time  goes  on  prove  to 
be  the  richest  heritage  left  by  the  nineteenth  cen- 
tury to  the  American  people,  and,  in  fact,  to  the 
people  of  all  countries  where  what  is  true,  and 
pure,  and  great,  in  public  life,  is  now  or  shall  here- 
after be  the  sole  standard  for  leaders  of  men. 

In  the  State  House  of  Massachusetts  on  Beacon 
Hill,  has  been  placed  a  measure  of  fifty  feet,  so 
protected  that  it  is  impervious  to  accidental  influ- 
ences, yet  accessible  to  all.  Whenever  a  man  sus- 
pects that  his  measure  has  departed  in  any  degree 
from  the  correct  limits,  he  may  come  and  compare 
it  for  correction  by  this  invariable  standard.  So 
we,  and  our  children's  children,  will,  as  time  goes 
on,  return  for  comparison  to  the  high  standards 
set  by  Abraham  Lincoln.  When  trying  problems 
present  themselves,  when  we  are  face  to  face  with 
questions  which  we  cannot  answer,  which  try  the 
judgment  or  baffle  the  conscience  of  our  people, 
will  we  not  find  ourselves  asking  how  he  would 
have  acted  in  a  similar  emergency?  Will  we  not 
say:  ''What  would  Lincoln  have  done?"  "What 
would  Lincoln  have  said?"  and  after  such  ques- 
tions, may  we  not  hope  that  the  answers  will  com- 
pel a  rededication  to  the  principles  of  private  and 
public  honor  that  raised  him  to  the  place  that  his 
memory  holds  in  our  affections?  It  is  because  his 
influence  rather  than  what  he  actually  achieved 
is  the  essential  fact  that  such  organizations  as  the 
Lincoln  Fellowship,  devoted  to  the  perpetuation 
of  his  memory,  may  justly  claim  to  be  numbered 
among  the  important  patriotic  forces  of  the  day. 


48  LINCOLN   FELLOWSHIP 

May  that  force  be  exerted  for  many  years  with 
unabated  power. 

The  President  :  The  field  of  Lincoln  collecting 
is  so  broad  that  no  single  collector  can  hope  to 
cultivate  the  whole,  hence  the  necessity  for  spe- 
cialization. Not  the  least  interesting  feature  of 
Lincolniana  is  its  portraiture,  and  one  of  our 
members  has  been  particularly  successful  in  the 
discovery  and  acquisition  of  Lincoln  photographs, 
and  he  has  generously  shared  with  us  the  valuable 
results  of  his  endeavor,  I  ask  Mr.  Frederick  H. 
Meserve  to  tell  us  of  his  work. 


Speech  of  Mr.  Frederick  Hill  Meserve 

Mr.  President  :  I  appreciate  the  kind  words  you 
have  spoken  about  my  efforts  to  collect  and  collate 
the  photographs  of  Lincoln.  My  part  in  preserv- 
ing the  record  of  the  life  and  times  of  the  great 
President  is  small  when  compared  to  the  labors 
of  others  here  to-night,  but  it  is  a  part  that  ap- 
peals to  the  eye  and  fixes  the  face  and  form  for- 
ever in  the  mind. 

Begun  seven  or  eight  years  ago  my  collection  is 
not  complete,  but  it  has  nearly  all  of  the  life  pho- 
tographs. It  has  been  a  keen  delight  to  search 
for  an  alleged  new  item.  I  have  followed  clues 
and  written  countless  letters,  as  have  you  when  on 
the  trail  of  an  elusive  pamphlet.  But  in  nearly 
every  case  after  the  photograph  has  been  literally 
wrung  from  the  owner's  possession,  it  has  hap- 
pened to  be  a  poor  copy  of  a  well-known  portrait, 
or  a  copy  of  an  engraving,  or  a  photographic  copy 
of  a  marvelous  work  of  art  done  in  oils  by  some 


MR.   MESERVE  49 

local  house  painter  of  the  period,  but  which  the 
owner  might  sell  if  I  would  mortgage  my  city 
house. 

The  photographs  show  Lincoln  to  us  as  he  was. 
No  written  description  of  the  man  can  take  the 
camera 's  place.  And  if  the  camera  cannot  always 
catch  the  smiles  and  sorrows  or  portray  sublime 
greatness  by  its  moment's  look,  it  can  at  least  tell 
us  that  he  was  a  real  personage,  which  is  what 
some  inspired  admirers  would  have  us  forget. 

Not  the  least  part  of  the  pleasure  derived  from 
my  share  in  our  self-imposed  labors  is  that  which 
I  find  in  the  friendships  of  kindred  spirits,  and  in 
these  gatherings.  I  hope  we  may  continue  to  meet 
each  year  to  compare  notes,  perhaps  to  boast  a 
little,  to  welcome  newcomers  to  our  Company  of 
Collectors  unlimited,  and  to  render  our  tribute  to 
the  mind  that  controlled  the  destiny  of  a  nation. 
The  President  called  upon  Mr.  Matthew  Page 
Andrews  to  tell  something  of  the  important  col- 
lection of  letters  and  manuscripts  relating  to 
Lincoln  formerly  owned  by  Col.  Ward  H.  Lamon. 
Mr.  Andrews  stated  briefly  his  high  appreciation 
of  the  value  of  this  collection  which  he  had  re- 
cently examined. 

The  Secretary  read  the  following  letters: 


Letter  from  Robert  Lincoln 

Chicago,  January  10th,  1910. 
Dear  Mr,  Tandy:  I  am  greatly  obliged  for  the 
kind  terms  of  your  letter,  inviting  me  to  the  Din- 
ner of  The  Lincoln  Fellowship  on  February  12th, 
next ;  but  I  am  compelled  to  say  to  you,  that  I  do 


50  LIN(X)LN   FELLOWSHIP 

not  find  it  ])racti('ahU'  to  accept  it.  As  you  per- 
linps  know,  it  has  been  a  steady  rule  of  mine  to  re- 
frain from  attendini?  dinners  in  honor  of  my  fa- 
ther durinf]^  all  the  lon<2:  time  that  they  have  been 
given — and  there  are  many  of  tliem  given  every 
year.  I  took  this  course  from  the  start,  for  I  felt 
that  if  I  attended  on  one  occasion  it  would  be  very 
difficult  to  refrain  from  accepting  a  similar  invi- 
tation at  another  time,  and  that  consequently  on 
that  day  I  would  always  have  long  journeys  to 
make.  But  more  than  all  this,  on  nearly  every  one 
of  the  occasions,  it  would  have  been  expected  that 
I  should  myself  take  some  part  more  than  that  of 
a  mere  guest,  and  I  frankly  say  to  you  that  that 
would  be  very  embarrassing  to  me  to  do.  It  has 
always  seemed  to  me  better  that  I  should  leave  to 
others  the  discussion  of  my  father's  relations  to 
the  public  affairs  of  the  United  States. 

The  only  exceptions  I  have  made  were  last  year 
upon  the  extraordinary  celebration  which  waa 
given  at  Springfield,  Illinois,  The  circumstances 
of  this  were  so  peculiar  that  I  thought  it  right  to 
make  the  exception,  and  I  am,  of  course,  glad  that 
I  did  so.  Later  in  the  year  I  attended  the  unveil- 
ing of  a  statue  erected  near  the  birthplace  of  my 
father,  because  that,  too,  was  a  very  exceptional 
occasion. 

I  am  tlierefore  going  to  thank  you,  and  ask  you 
to  excuse  me  from  accepting  the  present  invita- 
tion. It  would  be  a  very  great  pleasure  person- 
ally to  meet  those  who  will  be  there,  many  of 
whom  I  am  sure  that  I  know  personally,  and  others 
I  consider  as  friends  whom  I  have  not  yet  seen. 

I  trust  that  you  will  understand  my  feelings 
about  the  matter,  but  will  appreciate  that  I  re- 


GENERAL    STAHEL  51 

gard  meetings  of  this  kind  in  the  most  grateful 
way. 
Believe  me, 

Most  sincerely  yours, 

Robert  T.  Lincoln. 
Francis  D.  Tandy,  Secretary. 

Letter  from  Gen.  Julius  Stahel 

New  York,  January  8,  1910. 

Dear  Mr.  Tandy:  I  am  in  receipt  of  your  com- 
munications of  the  5th  and  6th  instant,  and  in  re- 
ply, permit  to  state,  that  I  highly  appreciate  the 
honor  the  Committee  has  done  me,  by  requesting 
me  to  make  an  address  at  the  coming  dinner  of 
The  Lincoln  Fellowship  on  February  12th  next. 

It  would  be  most  gratifying  for  me  to  do  so,  for 
I  have  known  Abraham  Lincoln  personally,  and 
experienced  the  force  of  his  kindly  paternal  na- 
ture, and  hence  it  is  with  deep-felt  regret,  that 
owing  to  my  physical  condition,  I  am  forced  to 
deprive  myself  of  the  privilege  of  being  present 
on  such  an  interesting  occasion,  and  of  adding  so 
far  as  I  am  able,  my  humble  tribute  to  the  mem- 
ory of  that  exceptionally  great  and  good  man, 
whose  unflattering  faith,  untiring  energy  and  pa- 
triotism, availed  so  much  to  perpetuate  the  in- 
tegrity and  stability  of  our  Government. 
Very  truly  yours, 

Francis  D.  Tandy,  Secretary.  ^ 

The  Secretary  reported  the  following  condition 
of  membership : 


52  LINCOLN  FELLOWSHIP 

Membership  last  year 134 

Joined 17 

151 

Died 2 

Resigned   7  9 

Membership  at  present 142 

The  report  of  the  Secretary  was  accepted  as 
read,  and  he  was  instructed  to  drop  from  the  roll 
all  those  who  were  more  than  one  year  in  arrears 
if  they  did  not  remit  immediately  upon  receipt  of 
the  bill.    The  Treasurer  reported  as  follows : 

Balance  on  hand $77.21 

Received  from  dues,  etc 91.51 

Total. $168.72 

Miscellaneous  expenses 37.19 

Balance  on  hand $131.53 

These  figures  do  not  include  the  receipts  for  the 
sale  of  seats  at  the  dinner.  The  report  of  the 
Treasurer  was  accepted  as  read. 

The  President  then  declared  the  meeting  ad- 
journed. 

As  no  election  of  officers  was  held,  the  old  offi- 
cers will  serve  for  the  coming  year. 


OFFICERS  AND  MEMBERS  1910. 

PresMent, 
Major  William  H.  Lambert. 

Vice-Presidents  y 
Gen.  James  Grant  Wilson, 
Judge  Daniel  Fish, 
Charles  W.  McLellan, 
Joseph  B.  Oakleaf, 
Alonzo  Rothschild, 
Miss  Ida  Tarbell, 
Horace  White. 

Secretary, 
Francis  D.  Tandy. 

Treasurer, 
Judd  Stewart. 

Members, 
Adee,  Charles  V. 
Ainsworth,  Danforth 
Aitken,  John  Winfield 
Andrews,  John  H. 
Andrews,  Matthew  Page 
Ball,  James  Drummond 
Barker,  H.  E. 
Bartlett,  Truman  H. 
Bates,  David  Homer 
Bauer,  Hon.  Oswald  A. 
Beckett,  Charles  H. 
Bischoff,  Judge  Henry 
Blosh,  Philip 
Boldt,  George  C,  Jr. 
53 


64  LINCOLN   FELLOWSHIP 

Brenner,  Victor  D. 
Bowman,  E.  M. 
Brennis,  Jerome  P. 
Brown,  Henry  C. 
Bullock,  A.  M. 
Burrage,  Rev.  H.  S.,  d.d. 
Burrows,  Maj.  Charles 
Burton,  John  E. 
Cadley,  Peter 
Carey,  Arthur  Astor 
Caverno,  Charles 
Ceballos,  Juan  M. 
Compton,  Theodore  W. 
Cooley,  Mrs.  Maurice  W. 
Crane,  Leroy  B. 
Crawford,  John 
Cuyler,  Telamon 
Darling,  Col.  Jasper  T. 
Davis,  J.  McCann 
DeFau,  Fred 
Deitsch,  Edward  J. 
Dueth,  Alexander  J. 
Dueth,  Albert  J.  L. 
Dunlop,  George 
Dunn,  Gano 

Dyche,  Mrs.  Grace  Scripps 
Edwards,  Albert  S. 
Ehret,  George,  Jr. 
p]mott,  Charles  C. 
Fairhead,  Rev.  George  B. 
Goan,  Orrin  S. 
Goodman,  E. 
Grier,  Rev.  A.  C. 
Griffith,  Albert  H. 
Gross,  Anthony 
Hanft,  Julian  0. 


MEMBERS  55 

Hanson,  Bert 
Hewitt,  Robert 
Hickok,  William  P. 
Hill,  Frederick  Trevor 
Hopper,  Isaac  A. 
Jackson,  Rev.  S.  Trevena 
Jackson,  Stuart  W. 
Johnson,  Edward  S. 
Jones,  Rev.  Jenkin  Lloyd 
Jones,  Richard  Lloyd 
Kelsheimer,  James  B. 
Kerfoot,  Samuel  H.,  Jr. 
Knapp,  Hon.  Perry  D. 
Koenig,   Samuel  S. 
Kuhn,  August 
Lamb,  George  R. 
Lancaster,  George  A. 
Laughlin,  Miss  Clara  E. 
Lee,  Prof.  Duncan  Campbell 
Lemmon,  Rev.  George  T. 
Leonard,  William  N. 
Lincoln,  Robert  T. 
Little,  John  S. 
Lyman,  C.  H. 
McCarthy,  Charles 
Mcllvaine,  Miss  Caroline  M. 
McKnight,  Thomas  W. 
McLellan,  Hugh 
McLellan,  Malcom  Nye 
Mandelbaum,  Marcus 
Mason,  Watts  L. 
Merwin,  J.  B. 
Meserve,  Frederick  Hill 
Moores,  Charles  W. 
Moran,  William  J. 
Morse,  John  T.,  Jr. 


56  LINCOLN   FELLOWSHIP 

Muller,  Lewis  G. 
Newhall,  Daniel  H. 
Oldroyd,  0.  H. 
O'Reilley,  Lawrence  J. 
Orrok,  Albert  H. 
Owen,  Rev.  William  H.,  Jr. 
Phillips,  Hon.  Isaac  Newton 
Ritchie,  George  Thomas 
Ritchie,  G.  W.  H. 
Ross,  R.  R. 
Russell,  Andrew 
Sanford,  W.  E. 
Savin,  William  M. 
Sawyer,  F.  H. 
Schmidt,  George  E. 
Schmidt,  Otto  L. 
Seligman,  A.  Lincoln 
Sewall,  Rufus  Lentner 
Shainwald,  Miss  Maizie 
Shainwald,  Ralph  L. 
Shainwald,  Mrs.  Ralph  L. 
Shearn,  Clarence  J. 
Sheppard,  Morris 
Sickles,  Gen.  Daniel  E. 
Slattery,  D.  G. 
Smitley,  Joseph  W. 
Smyser,  George  H. 
Stahel,  Gen.  Julius 
Starr,  John  W.,  Jr. 
Stone,  Orra  L. 
Stooksbury,  William  L. 
Sumner,  Edward  A. 
Thayer,  Mrs.  Charles  M. 
Tibbals,  Newell  D. 
Tinker,  Charles  A. 
Tracy,  Gilbert  A. 


MEMBERS  57 

Veitch,  Norman 
Whipple,  Wayne 
Whitlock,  Hon.  Brand 
Wiskell,  Dr.  Gustave  P. 
Wilson,  Fred  G. 

Deceased  Members, 
Hon.  Grover  Cleveland 
Gen.  Oliver  0.  Howard 
Col.  Alexander  K.  McClure 
Rev.  David  D.  Thompson 


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